certainly not yet worshipped Him. He begins to be religious only when
such an ideal determines the atmosphere of his daily living; when he
regards the immanence of such an ideal in nature and history as the
object of his will; and when he responds to its presence in the spirit
of his conduct and his contemplation.
FOOTNOTES:
[54:1] Cf. Caird: _The Evolution of Religion_, Lectures II, III.
[58:2] Cf. Leuba: _Introduction to a Psychological Study of Religion_,
_Monist_, Vol. XI, p. 195.
[58:3] Cf. Leuba: _Ibid._
[59:4] Cf. § 29.
[59:5] P. 322.
[64:6] Rousseau: _Confessions_, Book IV, p. 125.
[65:7] William James: _The Varieties of Religious Experience_, p. 35.
The italics are mine. I am in the present chapter under constant
obligation to this wonderfully sympathetic and stimulating book.
[67:8] Chadwick: _Theodore Parker_, p. 18.
[67:9] Stevenson: _Letters_, Vol. I, p. 229.
[68:10] Thomas à Kempis: _Imitation of Christ_, Chap. XIX. Translation
by Stanhope, p. 44.
[69:11] St. Augustine: _Confessions_, Book I, Chap. I. Translation in
Schaff: _Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers_, Vol. I, p. 129.
[71:12] James: _Varieties of Religious Experience_, p. 203.
[74:13] Fielding: _op. cit._, p. 152.
[78:14] Warren: _Buddhism in Translations_, p. 14.
[78:15] _Ibid._, p. 83.
CHAPTER IV
THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION
[Sidenote: Résumé of Psychology of Religion.]
§ 28. It has been maintained that religion is closely analogous to one's
belief in the disposition toward one's self of men or communities. In
the case of religion this disposition is attributed to the more or less
vaguely conceived residual environment that is recognized as lying
outside of the more familiar natural and social relations. After the
rise of science this residual environment tends to be conceived as a
unity which is ultimate or fundamental, but for the religious
consciousness it is more commonly regarded as a general source of
influence practically worthy of consideration. Such a belief, like all
belief, is vitally manifested, with such emphasis upon action, feeling,
or intellection as temperament and mood may determine.
[Sidenote: Religion Means to be True.]
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