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It is instructive in this respect to contrast the views of Peirce and James. James, who so generously indicated his indebtedness to Peirce for his pragmatism, was also largely indebted to Peirce for his doctrine of radical empiricism.^[5] The latter doctrine seeks to rescue the continuity and fluidity of experience from the traditional British empiricism or nominalism, which had resolved everything into a number of mutually exclusive mental states. It is curious, however, that while in his psychology James made extensive use of the principle of continuity, he could not free himself from British nominalism in his philosophy—witness the extreme individualism of his social philosophy or the equally extreme anthropomorphism of his religion. Certain of Peirce’s suggestions as to the use of continuity in social philosophy have been developed by Royce in his theory of social consciousness and the nature of the community;^[6] but much remains to be worked out and we can but repeat Peirce’s own hope: “May some future student go over this ground again and have the leisure to give his results to the world.”