Summary Of The Varieties Of Human Experience

Summary Of The Varieties Of Human Experience

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THIS book would never be written had I not been honored with a meeting as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. In casting about me for subjects of the 2 courses of ten lectures each that I thus became responsible, it appeared to me that the primary course might rather be a descriptive one on 'Man's Religious Appetites,' and therefore the second a metaphysical one on 'Their Satisfaction through Philosophy.' But the unexpected growth of the psychological matter as I came to write down it out has resulted within the second subject being postponed entirely, and therefore the description of man's religious constitution now fills the twenty lectures. In Lecture XX I even have suggested instead of stated my very own philosophic conclusions, and therefore the reader who desires immediately to understand them should address the 'Conclusions,' and to the 'Postscript' of the book. I hope to be able at some later day to precise them in additional explicit form.

In my belief that an outsized acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, I even have loaded the lectures with concrete examples, and that I have chosen these among the extremer expressions of the religious temperament. To some readers I'll consequently seem, before they get beyond the center of the book, to supply a caricature of the topic. Such convulsions of piety, they're going to say, aren't sane. If, however, they're going to have the patience to read to the top, I think that this unfavorable impression will disappear; for I there combine the religious impulses with other principles of sense which function correctives of an exaggeration, and permit the individual reader to draw as moderate conclusions as he will.

My thanks for the help in writing these lectures are thanks to Edwin D. Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made

over to me his large collection of manuscript material; to Henry W. Rankin, of East Northfield, a lover 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. Miller, and to my friends, Thomas Wren Ward, of latest York, and Wincenty Lutoslawski, late of Cracow, for important suggestions and advice. Finally, to conversations with the lamented Thomas Davidson and to the utilization of his books, at Glenmore, above Keene Valley, I owe more obligations than I can well express.

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