The Boston Globe, May 16th, 2001
NEW YORK - It wasn't much of a club, really, even by the catch-as- catch-can standards of Cambridge. It existed for just nine months in 1872. No one's sure what went on during the meetings, how many took place - or even if there actually were any. What we do know is that the membership of the Metaphysical Club included three of the foremost thinkers America produced in the 19th century - the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and the philosophers William James and Charles Sanders Peirce. Their ideas, along with those of a slightly younger man they all later had dealings with, the philosopher Joh...
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