II. Relations between God and the Human Soul 319-325 III. Mysticism and Pantheism: their Differences and Points of Likeness 325-335 IV. The Divine Immanence; Spiritual Personality 336-340 CHAPTER XV.--SUMMING-UP OF THE WHOLE BOOK. BACK THROUGH ASCETICISM, SOCIAL RELIGION, AND THE SCIENTIFIC HABIT OF MIND, TO THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION 341-396 I. Asceticism and Mysticism 341-351 II. Social Religion and Mysticism 351-366 III. The Scientific Habit and Mysticism 367-386 IV. Final Summary and Return to the Starting-point of the Whole Inquiry: the Necessity, and yet the Almost Inevitable Mutual Hostility, of the Three Great Forces of the Soul and of the Three Corresponding Elements of Religion 387-396 INDEX 397 THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION PART III CRITICAL CHAPTER IX PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS INTRODUCTORY. 1. _Plan of Part Three._ The picture of Catherine’s life and teaching which was attempted in the previous volume will, I hope, have been sufficiently vivid to stimulate in the reader a desire to try and go deeper, and to get as near as may be to the driving forces, the metaphysical depths of her life. And yet it is obvious that, if we would understand something of these, we must proceed slowly and thoroughly, and must begin with comparatively superficial questions. Or rather, we must begin by studying her temperamental and psycho-physical endowment and condition, and then the literary influences that stimulated and helped to mould these things, as though all this were not secondary and but the material and occasion of the forces and self-determinations to be considered later on. 2. _Defects of ancient psycho-physical theory._ Now as to those temperamental and neural matters, to which this chapter shall be devoted, the reader will, no doubt long ago, have discovered that it is precisely here that not a little of the _Vita e Dottrina_ is faded and withered beyond recall, or has even become positively repulsive to us. The constant assumption, and frequent explicit insistence, on the part of more or less all the contributors, upon the immediate and separate significance, indeed the directly miraculous character, of certain psycho-physical states--states which, taken thus separately, would now be inevitably classed as most explicable neural abnormalities,--all this atmosphere of nervous high-pitch and tremulousness has now become a matter demanding a difficult historical imagination and magnanimity, if we would be just to those who held such views, and would thus benefit to the full from these past positions and misconceptions.