[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED William James IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?

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JAMES, William. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? Philadelphia: S. Burns Weston, 
1896. First Edition. A small (4-1/8" x 6-3/8"), slim (63 pages) volume 
bound in brown flexible cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover. An 
address originally given before the Young Men's Christian Association of 
Harvard University in May of 1895 and later given at the Society for 
Ethical Culture of Philadelphia. SIGNED by the author on a front blank: 
"Wm James/Harvard University/Jan. 7, 1897." Books signed by this great 
American psychologist and philosopher are excessively scarce. Name of 
Harvard Philosophy Professor George V. Dearborn, dated December 1896, on 
the front endpaper. Some darkening to the pastedowns from the glue used. 
Light rubbing to the spine edges. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper, if 
it ever had one.

William James, brother of the noted novelist Henry James, Jr., is 
generally considered to be, along with Emerson, the greatest philosophic 
American mind. He is best known for his book VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS 
EXPERIENCE and his theory of Pragmatism, an advanced philosophy based on 
the doctrine that truth is based on experience and observation. 
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