"James ends this extraordinary essay, which is a call for a whole new philosophy of mind based on what mind actually is and does, by saying, provocatively, “The peace of rationality may be sought through ecstasy when logic fails,” and he appeals for an example to Whitman: “Even the least religious of men must have felt with our national ontologic poet, Walt Whitman, when loafing on the grass on some transparent summer morning that ‘Swiftly arose and spread around him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth’. . .To feel ‘I am the truth’ is to abolish the opposition between knowing and being.”6"
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism" by Robert D. Richardson: https://a.co/46keh29
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