Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James

Contents\nIntroduction\nDeterminism and Despair\n1 Letter to Thomas Wren Ward (1868)\n2 “ The Sick Soul,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)\n3 “ The Dilemma of Determinism” (1897)\nFreedom and Life\n4 “ The Will to Believe” (1897)\n5 “ Is Life Worth Living?” (1897)\nPsychology and the Healthy Mind\n6 “ What Makes a Life Significant” (1900)\n7 Chapter IX, “The Stream of Thought,” and Chapter X, “The Consciousness of Self,” from The Principles of Psychology (1890)\n8 “ The Energies of Men” (1907)\nConsciousness and Transcendence\n9 A Review of Benjamin Paul Blood’s The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy (1874)\n10 “ On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” (1899)\nTruth and Consequences\n11 “What Pragmatism Means” (1903)\n12 “ The Moral Equivalent of War” (1903)\nWonder and Hope\n13 “Mysticism,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)\n14 “Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine” (1897)\n15 “A Pluralistic Mystic” (1910)\nIndex