This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Appreciation' is an essay about the how to appreciate the world and how to be content. William Lyon Phelps was born on 2nd January 1865, in New Haven, Conneticut, United States. Phelps earned a B.A. in 1887, writing his thesis on the Idealism of George Berkeley. He then gained an M.A. in 1891 from Yale and...