in the matter of this Friend behind phenomena, our own yearning and our own almost ineradicable instinctive conviction, since they are certainly not founded on either reason or observation, are in origin the groping of a lonely-souled gregarious animal to find its herd or its herd-leader in the great spaces between the stars. “At any rate, it is a belief very difficult to get rid of.” FOOTNOTES [1] Mark I. 10-11. [2] II Corinthians III. 17. [3] Ephesians I. 23. [4] It is true, no doubt, that the word “mystery” in the New Testament is generally used with a technical meaning. I shall refer later to the true significance of the word, but for the moment it is not overstraining it to use it as I have done in the text. [5] Bertrand Russell’s _Philosophical Essays_, pp. 60, 61. [6] _Ibid._, p. 70. [7] Arthur Balfour’s _Theism and Humanism_, p. 87. [8] _Ibid._, p. 134. [9] _Ibid._, p. 273. [10] _Ibid._, p. 274. [11] Tennyson’s _Two Voices_. [12] Titchener’s _Beginner’s Psychology_, p. 19. [13] Dr. William McDougall’s _Body and Mind_, p. 335. [14] William James’ _Principles of Psychology_, Vol. II, p. 583. [15] James’ _Psychology_ (Briefer Course), p. 237. [16] Leuba’s _Psychology of Religion_, p. 212. [17] _Ibid._, p. 277. [18] _The World and the Individual_, Vol. I, p. 81. [19] _Ibid._, p. 181. [20] _The Aurora_, Chap. XIX, pp. 10-13. [21] Isaac Penington, _Works_, Vol. I, p. xxxvii. [22] _Towards Democracy_, p. 190. [23] _Ibid._, p. 513. [24] Dostoievsky’s _The Possessed_. [25] _The Mystical Element_, Vol. II, p. 132. [26] This point has been discussed in the previous chapter. Printed in the United States of America. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Inner Life, by Rufus M. Jones