James, William
<p>May 18, 2010 10:08 AM
 
see wonderful chronology in Stfd Encyc below.
born 1842 ...  tutors and private schools in NY.
Henry James his brother was 1 yr younger.  novelist
Alices James was his sister (a diarist)
 
father was Jenry James St ...  indep wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swendenborgian theologian.
 
age 13 to 16... family moved to Europe...  schooled in Geneva, Paris,  cote dazur.
 
studied painting and science.
 
undergrad at Hvd at 19,  med school at Hvd in 1864 at age  22.
 
1865 to the Amazon with Louis Agasiz.
 
1869  finishes med school... never practiced.  severe suicidal depression.
 
taught psych and philos at Hvd.
 
Mar 16, 2009 5:49 PM
 
note:  Cash Value of beliefs....to say they were true was to say they guided us satisfactorily in this environment
 
“Feeling is a mere collateral product of our nervous
processes, unable to react upon them any more than
a shadow reacts on the steps of the traveller whom it
accompanies. Inert, uninfluential, a simple passenger
in the voyage of life, it is allowed to remain on board,
but not to touch the helm or handle the rigging.”</p>