William James and the denial of death

Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (9-10):9-10 (2002)
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. Can things whose end is always dust and disappointment be the real goods which our souls require? Back of everything is the great spectre of universal death, the all-encompassing blackness

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