Claims
William James described George Fox as a psychopath of the deepest dye in The Varieties of Religious Experience
Documented What these labels mean →In Lecture I of The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), William James calls Quaker founder George Fox 'a psychopath or detraque of the deepest dye' from the point of view of his nervous constitution.
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| documents | gutenberg.org | Lecture I text: Fox 'was a psychopath or detraque of the deepest dye'. |
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| Jeffrey Kripal - disclosure as apocalypse (American Alchemy, 2026) | asserts | 00:44:05 |
Claim
In Lecture I of The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), William James calls Quaker founder George Fox 'a psychopath or detraque of the deepest dye' from the point of view of his nervous constitution.