William James and the Rationality of Religious Experience

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his leg.As a thirteen-year-old school boy helping to put out a fire caused by an experiment, he was severely burned, resulting in two amputations above the knee. 2 His physical movement was now restricted, but he was still very much alive to the pleasures of his day, acd a cause of concern to his Calvinistic father."His worldly interests and animal spirits were at war with his humanity, and both were at war with his traditional piet7.'.3He moved restlessly to various occupations, studied for a time for the ministry, and finally set out upon a lifetime effort to develop and articulate hia own religious thought.His restlessness was geographical as well as intellectual, and even his marriage and the birth of his first aon, William, did not keep him from moving back and forth between Albany and New York City. 4Along with the task of spreading his religious views, Henry Senior undertook the education of his children.He had little faith in schools, and wanting to prevent the lives of his chi

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