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...this little book, originally an address given before the Young Men's Christian Association of Harvard University in May, 1895, Professor James answers the question on the title page-Mr. Wallock in his book of the same title made the jocose answer that "it depends on the liver." Professor James reaches the same conclusion as Mr. Wallock, but in a very different sense...
...your feet are nerved to the accomplishment; but mistrust yourself and you are lost. Refuse to believe and you shall indeed be right, for you shall irretrievably perish. But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself. This is why life depends on the liver. Life is worth living, since it is what we make it. Pessimism, completed by your act, is true beyond a doubt, so far as your world goes. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief creates the fact...
This entire question depends upon the liver. He may solve his doubts in two ways. By suicide he proves that he can end all. But if he keeps on living he can make life worth living...
...always stand more or less in the relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved...
Notice has been taken of the close relation of mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here he said, "There will be much I say which cannot be demonstrated. However, I do think that thought can be proved as the product of the brain, which is the seat of thought. There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always...