A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. - William James

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William James: "A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians."

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Animal	Bring	Cooling	Core
Delight	Descent	Down	Excitability
Full	Instinct	Into	Irritable
Little	Loss	Melancholy	Metaphysicians
Painthreshold	Springs	Toughness	Turn
Usual	View	Weakness	Worm

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