The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 1905–1918 by Ronald Schuchard

Author:Ronald Schuchard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Holt, “The Place of Illusory Experience in a Realistic World,” The New Realism 303-73; here 306; hereafter abbreviated NR. Several of the contributors had been TSE’s teachers at Harvard.

2*. TSE’s note: “This paragraph is only the detailed examination of a point which falls under the general doctrine here stated [by Bradley]: ‘Error is without any question a dangerous subject, and the chief difficulty is as follows. We cannot, on the one hand, accept anything between non-existence and reality, while, on the other hand, error obstinately refuses to be either. It persistently attempts to maintain a third position, which appears nowhere to exist, and yet somehow is occupied. In false appearance there is something attributed to the real which does not belong to it. But if the appearance is not real, then it is not false appearance because it is nothing. On the other hand, if it is false, it must therefore be true reality, for it is something which is. And this dilemma at first sight seems insoluble. Or, to put it otherwise, an appearance, which is, must fall somewhere. But error, because it is false, cannot belong to the Absolute; and, again, it cannot appertain to the finite subject, because that, with all its contents, cannot fall outside the Absolute; at least, if it did, it would be nothing. And so error has no home, it has no place in existence; and yet, for all that, it exists. And for this reason it has occasioned much doubt and difficulty’” (A&R 186). This passage is marked in TSE’s copy.

3. An earlier version of this paragraph can be found in [Degrees of Reality], an essay written at Harvard in spring 1913, much of which is repeated here verbatim (58–59). On Janet, see n. 5 of that essay; on the James-Lange theory, see n. 6; and on Lipps, see n. 7 (64–65).

4. On 7 July 1898, James set out for Putman Camp, his rustic retreat in the Adirondacks, to plan his forthcoming Gifford Lectures, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). After hiking in with friends, he had on the night of his arrival an experience which became well-known in the Harvard Philosophy Department. As described to his wife two days later: “I entered a state of spiritual alertness of the most vital description. The influence of Nature, the wholesomeness of the people around me … the thought of you and the children … the problem of the Edinburgh lectures, all fermented within me till it became a regular Walpurgis nacht [sic]… and it seemed as if the Gods of all the nature-mythologies were holding an indescribable meeting in my breast with the moral Gods of the inner life.” The Letters of William James, vol II (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920), 76.

5*. TSE’s note: “Cf. Lipps, Vom Fühlen, Wollen, und Denken, p. 70.” See TSE’s 1913 Harvard essay [Degrees of Reality] (65, n. 7).

6. For James on the child’s perception of a bear, see [Degrees of Reality] (64, n. 3).

7*. TSE’s note: “See Nettleship, [Philosophical Lectures and] Remains, I, p.

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