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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...hologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities. If the inquiry be psychological, no... ...s, when they delivered their utterances? These are manifestly questions of historical fact, and one does not see how the answer to them can decide off... ... the free caprice of the writer, or that it must exhibit no scientific and historic errors and express no local or personal pas- sions, the Bible woul... ...rbid- mindedness ranges over the wider scale of experi- ence, and that its survey is the one that overlaps. The method of averting one’s attention fro... ...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...

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ... likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself, Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only h... ... To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through, To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go, To gather the m... ... anchor lifters of the departing, Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth, Nor the plac... ...fluid utterances, They tumble forth, they rise and form, Hut, tent, landing, survey, Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade, Shingle, rail, prop, wainsco... ...e other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach? I see men marching...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, t... ...tone. The spring sunlight, flooding white masonry reared but yesterday and buildings centuries old, shone full like- wise upon thousands of bronzed fa... ...o greet the young couple there. Aunt and niece exchanged a rapid glance of survey. “Good-morning, dear aunt,” cried the Colonel, giving the old lady a... ...es de Vandenesse, a young man of great promise, the bearer of one of those historic names which, in spite of the efforts of legis- lation, are always ... ... before the curtain falls. But M. de Vandenesse had another reason for his survey. He gazed curiously at the scene before him, so French in character ... ... or color in the sky. Afar, the skyey spaces themselves seem to be full of buildings; near, wind the serpentine curves of waving trees and green footp... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th...