It is obvious that Michela Bella has remarkably done justice to the central aims of the book : (1) to analyze the theme of continuity and (2) to illustrate the continuity of thought in James. . . . The scholarliness of the author is evident from the literature consulted and studied. She has painstakingly examined all the works of William James including reviews and correspondences and has consulted extensively the most relevant secondary literature. The thematic continuity and intellectual eruditeness of the work is greatly appreciable. . . . the academic profundity of this book exhibits the scope of a comparative scholarship of ‘continuity’ between James and each of them. Bella has not attempted to find applications of James’s view of ‘continuity’ and ‘dynamism.’ In fact, this work can be used as key source for future research and further interpretations in various inter-disciplinary fields like science-religion interaction, positive psychology, etc.
