destitution, a death, an ultimate helplessness. Which of us but sometimes " lifts a pallid face in prayer to God, lest some hideous calamity engulf his fairest hopes?... We are all without real selfhood, without the selfhood which comes from God alone. We have only a showy and fallacious one... which is wholly inadequate to guarantee us against calamity. We shiver in every breeze, and stand aghast at every cloud that passes over the sun. When our ships go down at sea, what shrieks we hear from blanched and frenzied lips peopling the melancholy main, perturbing the sombre and sympathetic air for months afterwards I When our children die, and take back to heaven the brimming innocence wMch our INTRODUCTION.
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William James. Introduction to The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James. 1885. The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, edited by William James (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1885), vii-119.
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William James. Introduction to The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James. 1885. The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James, edited by William James (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1885), vii-119. Premodern Concordance passage passage-9474c956134620051b1a.