ABSTRACT
William James had an intellectual hatred for the evils of war. The thought of James is a particularly dramatic example of this internal doctrinal schism, which led to diverse social uses. Rationality was for James, as it was for John Dewey after him, a product of breeding through countless centuries of civilization. James' hatred of war had definite intellectual roots in the native anarchism of New England transcendentalists like Emerson and Thoreau. Dewey's almost Aristotelian tendency to seek a pragmatic mean thus served to give pragmatism a renewed vigor once the glitter of James turned out not to be gold in the academic marketplace. Dewey pointed to other features, which make possible as never before a universal peace. For Dewey's aim was to point up essential differences between a Machiavellian Europe and a Puritan America. Dewey was possessed by an extraordinary faith in the humanitarian and democratic nature of American economic expansion.
