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If we are free, our first free act should be to affirm that we are free
Drawn from what William James said
What William James actually said
- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
In other words, our first act of freedom, if we are free, ought in all inward propriety to be to affirm that we are free.
Where this was said
↗The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1879-1896)gutenberg.org
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