William James

One of her main subjects here is William James (recently deceased), whose theory of and experiments in pragmatism—particularly his emphasis on the will to believe—Lee disputes in favour of those explored by Charles Sanders Peirce

MS published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler , Henri Bergson , William James , Bertrand Russell , and others.

The review, published in The Egoist, applied William James 's term to describe a style of writing that follows the inner rather than the outer life and time of a character.

VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...