James on War

[lucretius]

Sanity sounds the same everywhen:

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and

Comments

[howlinhobbit]

Never heard of this guy. Shame on me.

HH

[lucretius]

These days, we're short on civic virtues. And the people who ought be working to instill 'em can't agree what they should be or have thrown in the towel completely.

It's a bit of a troubling situation.

But William James is great. Father of American psychology, pragmatic philosophy, and generally speaking, one of the few people of his age to make being open-minded a virtue. (By this, I don't mean trendily tolerant, but genuinely open-minded).