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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 The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)

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This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

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He believed that liberalism had saved the intellect at the cost of the repudiating the great historical phenomenon of religion.

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… the fear of God together with a keen eye for the main chance.

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