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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James (1842-1910)
We spent some time in Harvard’s art museums on Saturday, particularly concentrating on Impressionism and on artifacts from the Islamic world.
But my real purpose for being there was to examine the original, handwritten manuscript of William James’s famous Gifford Lectures on the Varieties of Religious Experience, which is preserved in Harvard University’s Houghton Library. It was for a little project that I’m working on in stolen moments. Mission accomplished.
We had been visiting family in Richmond, Virginia.
I found some amusement, on Friday, in flying from the one-time capital of the Confederacy — our drive to Richmond’s airport took us, for a while, along the Jefferson Davis Highway — to what is perhaps the most New England Yankee of all American cities: Boston, Massachusetts.
Posted from Grindelwald, Switzerland
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