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Miller, and to my friends, Thomas Wren Ward, of New York, and Wincenty Lutoslawski, late of Cracow, for important suggestions and advice. Rankin, of East Northfield, a friend unseen but proved, to whom I owe precious information to Theodore Flournoy, of Geneva, to Canning Schiller of Oxford, and to my colleague Benjamin Rand, for documents to my colleague Dickinson S.

Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection of manuscript material to Henry W. My thanks for help in writing these lectures are due to Edwin D. If, however, they will have the patience to read to the end, I believe that this unfavorable impression will disappear for I there combine the religious impulses with other principles of common sense which serve as correctives of exaggeration, and allow the individual reader to draw as moderate conclusions as he will. Such convulsions of piety, they will say, are not sane. To some readers I may consequently seem, before they get beyond the middle of the book, to offer a caricature of the subject. In my belief that a large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, I have loaded the lectures with concrete examples, and I have chosen these among the extremer expressions of the religious temperament. I hope to be able at some later day to express them in more explicit form. In Lecture XX I have suggested rather than stated my own philosophic conclusions, and the reader who desires immediately to know them should turn to pages 501-509, and to the Postscript of the book. But the unexpected growth of the psychological matter as I came to write it out has resulted in the second subject being postponed entirely, and the description of man’s religious constitution now fills the twenty lectures. In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten lectures each for which I thus became responsible, it seemed to me that the first course might well be a descriptive one on Man’s Religious Appetites, and the second a metaphysical one on Their Satisfaction through Philosophy. THIS BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. POSTSCRIPT THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Lectures XIV and XV: THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS Lecture VIII: THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION

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The varieties of religious experience audiobook