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Great men and their environment

 
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dc.contributor.author James, William, 1842-1910
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dc.description.abstract The article appeared in vol. XLVI, no. CCLXXVI (Oct. 1880), p. 441-459 This article was originally a lecture given to the Harvard Natural History Society
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dc.title Great men and their environment
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Great Men and their Environment
by
William James
Atlantic Monthly, October, 1880
A lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society; published in the
Atlantic Monthly,
October, 1880
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zoölogical evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.
It will be best to prepare the ground for my thesis by a few very general remarks on the method of getting at scientific truth. It is a common platitude that a complete acquaintance with any one thing, however small, would require a knowledge of the entire universe. Not a sparrow falls to the ground but some of the remote conditions of his fall are to be found in the milky way, in our federal constitution, or in the early history of Europe. That is to say, alter the milky way, alter our federal constitution, alter the facts of our barbarian ancestry, and the universe would so far be a different universe from what it . . .
										
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