James's comment should be added: "Obviously the mind of the excellent Huxley has here but two whole-souled categories, namely, revelation or imposture, to apperceive the case by. Sentimental reasons bar revelation out, for the messages, he thinks, are not romantic enough for that; fraud exists anyhow; therefore the whole thing is nothing but imposture. The odd point is that so few of those who talk in this way realize that they and the spiritists are using the same major premise and differing only in the minor. The major premise is: 'Any spirit-revelation must be romantic.' The minor of the spiritist is: 'This _is_ romantic'; that of the Huxleyan is: 'This is dingy twaddle'--whence their opposite conclusions!" (_Memories and Studies_, pp. 185, 186.) [71] _The Will to Believe_, etc., p. 302. [72] _Cf._ _The Will to Believe_, etc., p. 319. [73] It is not the province of this book to estimate the importance of the work done by James and the other men--Sidgwick, Myers, Gurney, Richard Hodgson, Sir Oliver Lodge, and Richet, to go no further--who supported and guided the S. P. R. It must be traced in the literature of automatisms, hypnosis, divided personality, and the "subliminal." In James's own writings the reader may be referred to the above named chapter of _The Will to Believe_, etc., two papers included in _Memories and Studies_, and a review of Myers's _Human Personality_ in Proc. of the (Eng.) S. P. R., vol. XVIII, p. 22 (1903). See also p. 306 _infra_, and note. [74] _Mind_, 1884, vol. IX, pp. 1-26. [75] _Unitarian Review_, Dec., 1883; vol. XX, p. 481. [76] "The Dilemma of Determinism." _Unitarian Review_, Sept., 1884. Republished in _The Will to Believe and Other Essays_. [77] Professor Howison had accepted an appointment at the University of California (Berkeley). [78] "Why so heartlessly deceive your sons?" LEOPARDI, _To Sylvia_. [79] From 15 Appian Way to 18 Garden Street.