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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...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... ...be equally important to religion. If we should inquire for the essence of “government,” for example, one man might tell us it was authority, another s... ...ther a system of laws; yet all the while it would be true that no concrete government can exist without all these things, one of which is more importa... ...ul, an expression of God’s Perfect Thought. That was to me the perfect and completed separation between what 108 The V arieties of Religious Experien... ...ollowing lec- ture. [119] Charles G. Finney: Memoirs written by Him- self, 1876, pp. 17, 18. 214 The V arieties of Religious Experience Lecture X CON... ...ties. These speculations must, it seems to me, be classed as over-beliefs, buildings- out performed by the intellect into directions of which feeling ... ...he sight of God.” Apologia, 1897, pp. 48, 50. 443 William James Among the buildings-out of religion which the mind spontaneously indulges in, the aes... ...k. Not only are the other sciences and the philosophy still far from being completed, but in their present state we find them full of conflicts. The s...

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