494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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The Power of Habit and the Power of Action
Many's death and it seemed to him he somehow couldn't separate his own depressed self from this this figure who appeared to him. After days of horrible dread during which he realized the pit of insecurity beneath the surface of life he suddenly had an instinct. Bob comments about this is that William James somehow came to the realization that the power of habit and the power of action can be restorative in the way that for Emerson and Thoreau the notion of being at one with nature was restorative for them.
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