Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 8, 1890-1892

摘要

The longest is entitled, "Man's Glassy Essence," and that is an embroidered tale of Peirce's travels in Thessaly, Greece in 1870 when he was commissioned to scout out sites for the American party of astronomers who would come to the Mediterranean region to observe the solar eclipse of December 22, 1870. James, he continues, is a materialist to the core - that is to say, in a methodological sense, but not religiously, since he does not deny a separable soul nor a future life, for materialism is a form of philosophy which may safely be relied upon to leave the universe as incomprehensible as it finds it.