"The soul, however, when carefully scrutinized, guarantees no immortality; therefore I feel perfectly free to discard the word soul from the rest of my books. The reader who finds any comfort in the idea of the soul is, however, perfectly free to continue to believe in it." Volume 2, Page 572: "My own belief is that the question of free will is insoluble." Page 576: "We can, therefore, leave the free will question out of our account." Page 108: "The entire nervous system is nothing but a system of paths between a sensory terminous and a muscular glandular." Page 179: "Every individual cell has its own consciousness, which no other cell knows anything about." Page 291: "A man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body, but his clothes." Page 296: "Self, not personality, unity or pure ego." Page 339: "Each pulse of cognitive consciousness, each thought dies away or is replaced." Page 401: "Thought itself is a thinker." Page 554: "Let us try as we will to express this cerebral activity in exclusive mechanical terms. I, for one, find it quite impossible--the soul presents nothing herself; and creates nothing." Page 656: "The retention of the experience (memory) is nothing more or less than the brain paths which associate the experience with the occasion and the recall." Volume 2, Page 487: "The only ends that follow immediately upon our willing seem to be the movement of our bodies." Page 495: "Why any state of consciousness should precede a movement we do not know." Volume 1, Page 64: "The highest centers do probably contain nothing but arrangements for representing impressions and movements, and other arrangements for coupling the activities of these arrangements, which in turn excite others, until at last a motor discharge occurs." Page 29: "Can we tell precisely in what the feelings of the central active self consists? When I forsake general principles and grapple with particular it is difficult for me to detect any pure spiritual elements at all." Page 107: "The currents, once in, must find their way out. In getting out they leave their track. The only thing they can do, in short, is to deepen old paths or make new ones, and the whole plasticity of the brain sums itself up in two words, when we call the brain an organ in which currents passing in from the sense organs make paths which do not easily disappear." The reader will here observe that James refers to motor discharges and brain paths as though he actually believed, or that there was evidence, that such things existed. All through his works he quotes freely from agnostic and atheistic authors who have been attacking religion for about three hundred years, from which I will copy samples: _Spinoza_: "Extension is invisible thought, thought is invisible extension. Man is not free-willed--God neither thinks nor creates." _John Locke_: "Whatever any man may know, or reasonably believe in, or even conceive, is dependent on human experience."