What William James thinks about Addiction

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American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910); studied at Harvard; author of The Principles of Psychology (1890), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and Pragmatism (1907).

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   Our readingAlcohol's hold on humanity comes from its power to stimulate the mystical faculties that sobriety suppresses

   Their wordsThe sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

   ↗The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)gutenberg.org All 17 from this book