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the mess Mr Justice Holmes, however, will not, I believe, take it ill that we are proud to remembering his membership; nor will Joseph Warner & Nicholas St John Green was one the most interested fellows, a skillful lawyer and a learned one, a disciple of Jeremy Bentham. His extraordinary power of disrobing warm and breathing truth of the draperies of long worn formulas was what attracted attention even where, in particular, he often urged the importance of applying Bain's definition of belief, as "that upon which a man is prepared to act". From this definition, pragmatism is scarce more than a corollary; so that I am disposed to think of him as the grandfather of pragmatism. Chancey Wright, something of a philosophical celebrity in those days, was never absent from our meetings. I was about to call him our corypheus; but he will better be described as our boxing master whom we, I, particularly, used to face to be severely pummeled. He had abandoned
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