William James became famous for writing books . And how his childhood had ways to do with him becoming famous. By the paths he took, changes he made, and things he did to become famous. He is a famous Philosopher and he wrote books about Psychology and religion. He had attended schools all around.
He was teacher and he taught at schools about psychology and chemistry. He a wife and four children. William James was getting treatments that wasn’t working for his pains. He died in his home on August 18.
William James was born into an intellectual family of scientist and novelist. William was the oldest of five children. His father was a Philosopher and his younger brother, Henry James was a novelist and writer. William James and his siblings were educated by tutors in New York City and in Europe. When his family was living in Newport, Rhode Island around 1858 William took his own path to have a different life and live differently. He wanted to do different things and study different things. (1) http://www.biography.com/people/william-james-9352726
He was aspired to be an artist or a writer. And William took painting too. William enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1861 and he studied chemistry and physiology. After he left Lawrence Scientific School he studied at Harvard Medical School in 1864. After he got his degree in medical, he decided that he didn’t want to practice medicine anymore. He took a break from his education too. (1) http://www.biography.com/people/william-james-9352726
In 1867 he went to study physiology in Germany. When he was in Germany had started to get serious back pain, insomnia, and dyspepsia. So William came to the United States to finish up his MD degree. William started to read a book by ...
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...s that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
―William James (5)http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15865.William_James
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