Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Introduction 1
4. Determinism and Despair
5. 1 Letter to Thomas Wren Ward (1868) 25
6. 2 “ The Sick Soul,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) 35
7. 3 “ The Dilemma of Determinism” (1897) 53
8. Freedom and Life
9. 4 “ The Will to Believe” (1897) 77
10. 5 “ Is Life Worth Living?” (1897) 110
11. Psychology and the Healthy Mind
12. 6 “ What Makes a Life Significant” (1900) 141
13. 7 Chapter IX, “The Stream of Thought,” and Chapter X, “The Consciousness of Self,” from The Principles of Psychology (1890) 160
14. 8 “ The Energies of Men” (1907) 208
15. Consciousness and Transcendence
16. 9 A Review of Benjamin Paul Blood’s The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy (1874) 235
17. 10 “ On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” (1899) 242
18. Truth and Consequences
19. 11 “What Pragmatism Means” (1903) 265
20. 12 “ The Moral Equivalent of War” (1903) 282
21. Wonder and Hope
22. 13 “Mysticism,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) 301
23. 14 “Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine” (1897) 326
24. 15 “A Pluralistic Mystic” (1910) 338
25. Index 369