[59] For other cases, and a general account of the relations between pathologic states and religious delusion, see Lombroso, _Man of Genius_, chap. iv. pt. iii. [60] _Varieties of Religious Experience_, pp. 6-7. [61] _The Soul of a Christian_, p. 13. [62] See Parish's _Hallucinations and Illusions_, pp. 38-9. [63] _Saint Teresa_, by H. Joly, pp. 25, 26, and 58. [64] _Inquiries into Human Faculty_, 1883, p. 68. CHAPTER FOUR SEX & RELIGION IN PRIMITIVE LIFE The connection between sexual feeling and religious belief is ancient, intimate, and sustained. It has impressed itself on many observers who have approached the subject from widely different points of view. Some have treated the connection as purely accidental, and as having no more than a mere historical interest. Others have used it as illustrating the way in which so sacred a subject as religion may suffer degradation in degenerate hands. Others of a more scientific temper have dealt with the relations between sexualism and religion as illustrations of a mere perversion. A deal may be said in favour of this last point of view. We know, as a matter of fact, that such cases of perversion do exist, in what form and to what extent will be discussed later. We are also aware that strong feeling which cannot find vent in one direction will secure expression in another. The annals of Roman Catholicism contain accounts of numerous persons who have sought refuge in a monastery or a nunnery as the result of disappointment in love, and it would be foolish to conclude that strong amorous feelings are annihilated because there is a change in the object to which they are directed. Paul was not a different man from the Saul of pre-conversion days, but the same person with his energies directed into a new channel. Protestantism is without the obvious outlets for unsatisfied sexual feeling such as is provided by Roman Catholicism, but it provides other outlets. Religious service as a whole remains, and intense religious devotion may very often owe its origin to sources undreamt of by the devotee.