But when other people criticise our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them “nothing but” expressions of our organic disposition, we feel outra… - William James

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But when other people criticise our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them “nothing but” expressions of our organic disposition, we feel outraged and hurt, for we know that, whatever be our organism's peculiarities, our mental states have their substantive value as revelations of the living truth; and we wish that all this medical materialism could be made to hold its tongue.