The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
James describes the once-born temperament that sees good as the essential nature of reality, exemplified by Walt Whitman, liberal Christianity, and the American mind-cure movement.
Lectures IV-V, The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness

Defines the systematic cultivation of happiness as a religious duty and surveys mind-cure literature.

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Lecture IV

Whitman cited as the archetypal healthy-minded mystic of natural exuberance.

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