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The James Allen Companion

This companion book delves into the extensive collection of essays, lectures, and poems by James Allen, offering insights into his influential thoughts on self-improvement, personal development, and the nature of the human spirit. more

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James Allen

James Allen, born on November 28, 1864, was a renowned writer from the United Kingdom. His works spanned across various fields such as philosophy, religion, and self-help, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

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“Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.”

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“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”

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