William James Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910
Birthday: January 11
Death: August 26
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.
source: "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.
topic: Letting Go, Spiritual, College, Graduating Class
