...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...els; another is Emersonianism or New England transcendentalism; another is Berkeleyan idealism; another is spiritism, with its messages of “law” and “... ...ould ever have fallen so low as to be worked upon to such an extent by her attractions. Nevertheless, I fell into a regular fever, could think of noth... ...r fever, could think of nothing else; whenever I was alone, I pictured her attractions, and spent most of the time when I should have been working, in... ....” In his recent work on the Psychology of Religion, Professor Starbuck of California has shown by a sta- tistical inquiry how closely parallel in its... ...cribed, but should at least wish to adorn them with some books to give the visitors a better opinion of our scholarship.”[192] Since Hindu fakirs, Bud... ...opositions touching such ideas may be indifferently affirmed or denied. So Berkeley with his “matter.” The cash-value of matter is our physical sensat... ...lex businesses. An essentially worldly- minded Catholic woman can become a visitor of the sick on purely coquettish principles, with her confes- sor a...

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