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July 3, 1876 – January 22, 1957
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Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
Ralph Barton Perry— "Non-Resistance and The Present War - A Reply to Mr. Russell," International Journal of Ethics (April 1915), vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 307-316
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.
Ralph Barton Perry— Chap XXXI. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War, (1918), New York: Longmans, Green
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.
Ralph Barton Perry— The Thought and Character of William James (1935), vol. 1, ch. VIII
He believed that liberalism had saved the intellect at the cost of the repudiating the great historical phenomenon of religion.
Ralph Barton Perry— "The Thoght and Character of William James" (1935), Vol 2, ch. LXIX
