...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...arned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is ... ...ifficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience. In the end it had to come to our empiricist criter... ...ttle the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disap- pear, and to be drowned ignominiously will be the hu... ....” 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... ...ana.[218] We find accordingly that as ascetic saints have grown older, and directors of conscience more expe- rienced, they usually have shown a tende... ... special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely di...