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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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