It is being realized as never before that religion, as one of the most important things in the life both of the community and of the individual, deserves close and extended study. Such study can be of value only if based upon the personal experiences of many individuals. If you are in sympathy with such study and are willing to assist in it, will you kindly write out the answers to the following questions and return them with this questionnaire, as soon as you conveniently can, to JAMES B. PRATT, 20 Shepard Street, Cambridge, Mass. Please answer the questions at length and in detail. Do not give philosophical generalizations, but your own personal experience. 1. What does religion mean to you personally? Is it (1) A belief that something exists? _Yes._ (2) An emotional experience? _Not powerfully so, yet a_ social _reality_. (3) A general attitude of the will toward God or toward righteousness! _It involves these._ (4) Or something else? If it has several elements, which is for you the most important? _The social appeal for corroboration, consolation, etc., when things are going wrong with my causes (my truth denied)_, etc. 2. What do you mean by God? _A combination of Ideality and (final) efficacity._ (1) Is He a person--if so, what do you mean by His being a person? _He must be cognizant and responsive in some way._ (2) Or is He only a Force? _He must_ do. (3) Or is God an attitude of the Universe toward you? _Yes, but more conscious. "God" to me, is not the only spiritual reality to believe in. Religion means primarily a universe of spiritual relations surrounding the earthly practical ones, not merely relations of "value," but agencies and their activities. I suppose that the chief premise for my hospitality towards the religious testimony of others is my conviction that "normal" or "sane" consciousness is so small a part of actual experience. What e'er be true, it is not true exclusively, as philistine scientific opinion assumes. The other kinds of consciousness bear witness to a much wider universe of experiences, from which our belief selects and emphasizes such parts as best satisfy our needs._ How do you apprehend his relation to mankind } and to you personally? } } _Uncertain._ If your position on any of these matters is uncertain, } please state the fact. } 3. Why do you believe in God? Is it (1) From some argument? _Emphatically, no._ Or (2) Because you have experienced His presence? _No, but rather because I need it so that it "must" be true._