William James Quotes
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, pp. 367-368.
She had escaped, met and married another slave, and they cleverly escaped to England with her posing as the white owner of her husband. She was the daughter of a Black slave and her white master who kept his own daughter in bondage.
Ironically most American politicians are independent of crowned-kings, but are very depended on money-kings and land-kings for campaign contributions and in some cases, jobs if they are defeated at the polls.
William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".
