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It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word "intellectual" has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.   To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, "Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have ALWAYS felt that my life was being lived importantly".   Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: "The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.