TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Volume I is available as Project Gutenberg ebook number 50205. THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION _All rights reserved._ [Illustration: _The Venerable Battista Vernazza (Tommasina Vernazza) 1497-1587._] THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION AS STUDIED IN SAINT CATHERINE OF GENOA AND HER FRIENDS BY BARON FRIEDRICH VON HÜGEL MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY [Illustration] VOLUME SECOND CRITICAL STUDIES LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. MCMVIII RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME The frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile, in photogravure, of a lithograph by F. Scotto, entitled “Ven. Batta. Vernazza,” which was printed and owned by the firm of Gervasoni, and which appeared in the large 4to volume, _Ritratti, ed Elogi di Liguri Illustri_, with the text printed by Ponthenier, all in Genoa. This book was published there, in monthly parts, from 1823 to 1830. Scotto’s highly characteristic lithograph no doubt reproduces an authentic likeness; and probably the original portrait was, in the first instance, owned by the Canonesses of S. Maria delle Grazie, Battista’s own convent in Genoa. The picture now in the possession of the Nuns of S. Maria in Passione, the successors of those Canonesses, is of a quite conventional, secondary type. PAGE PART III.--CRITICAL CHAPTER IX.--PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS 3-61 Introductory 3-9 I. Catherine’s Third Period, 1497-1510 9-13 II. Conclusions concerning Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition during this Last Period 14-21 III. Catherine’s Psycho-physical Condition, its Likeness and Unlikeness to Hysteria 22-27 IV. First Period of Catherine’s Life, 1447-1477, in its Three Stages 28-32 V. The Second, Great Middle Period of Catherine’s Life, 1477-1499 32-40 VI. Three Rules which seem to govern the Relations between Psycho-physical Peculiarities and Sanctity in general 40-47