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What Was California?

From Josiah Royce to the Silicon Valley “Thought Leaders”

Justin Smith-Ruiu
Oct 12, 2020
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In 1879 Josiah Royce wrote a letter from Berkeley, to William James at Harvard, describing the intellectual condition of his home state: “There is no philosophy in California. From Siskiyou to Ft.…

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