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==Online resources==
== Additional resources ==


* [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/william-james-the-pragmatic-visionary William James: The Pragmatic Visionary] by Edward Hoffman.
* [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/william-james-the-pragmatic-visionary William James: The Pragmatic Visionary] by Edward Hoffman.

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When the Anagarika Dharmapala was visiting Boston in December, 1903, he went to William James's class at Harvard University.

I tried unobtrusively to reach the back of the lecture-hall to hear the great teacher of psychology, but it is difficult for a man in a yellow robe to be inconspicuous in America. Professor James saw me and motioned for me to come to the front of the hall. He said: "Take my chair, and I shall sit with my students. You are better equipped to lecture on psychology than I am." After I had outlined to his advanced class some elements of Buddhist doctrine, he turned to his students and said, "This is the psychology everybody will be studying twenty-five years from now."[1]

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  1. Anagarika Dharmapala, "On the Eightfold Path: Memories of an Interpreter of Buddhism to the Present-Day World," Asia (September, 1927), 720.