The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James

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Consistency, 296. Conversion, to avarice, 1(8. Conversion, Fletcher's, 181 ; Tolstoy's, 184 ; Bunyan's, 186 ; in general, Lectures IX and X, passim ; Bradley's, 189; compared with natural moral growth, 199 ; Hadley's, 201 ; two types of, 205 ff. ; Brainerd's, 212 ; AUine's, 217 ; Oxford graduate's, 221 ; Ratisbonne's, 223 ; instantaneous, 227 ; is it a natural phenomenon ?

230 ; subliminal action involved, in sudden cases, 236, 240 ; fruits of, 237 ; its niomentousness, 239 ; may be supernatural, 242 ; its concomitants : sense of higher control, 244, happiness, 248, automatisms, 250, luminous phenomena, 251 ; its degree of permanence, 256. Cosmic consciousness, 398. Counter-conversion, 176. Courage, 265, 287. Crankiness, see Psychopathy. Crichton-Browne, 384, 386. Criminal character, 263.

Criteria of value of spiritual afEections, 18. Crump, 239. Cure of bad habits, 270. Daudet, 167. Death, 139, 364. Derham, 493. Design, argument from, 438, 492 ff. Devoutness, 340. DioNYsius Areopagiticcts, 416. Disease, 99, 113. Disorder in contents of world, 438. Divided Self, Lecture VIII, passim ; Cases of : Saint Augustine, 172, H. AUine, 173. Divine, the, 31. Dog, 281. Dogmatism, 326, 333. DowiE, 113. Dresser, H. W., 96, 99, 289, 516.

Drink, 268. Drummer, 476. Drummond, 262. Drunkenness, 387, 403, 488. ' Dryness,' 204. Dumas, 279. Dyes, on clothing, 294. Earnestness, 264. Ecclesiastical spirit, the, 335, 338. ECKHART, 417. Eddy, 106. Edwards, Jonathan, 20 ; 114, 200, 229, 238, 239, 248, 330.

Edwards, Mrs. J., 276, 280. Effects of religious states, 21. Effeminacy, 365. Ego of Apperception, 449. Ellis, Havelock, 418. Elwood, 292. Emerson, 32, .56, 167, 205, 239, 330. Emotion, as alterer of life's value, 150 ; of the character, 195, 261 ff., 279. Empirical method, 18, 327 ff., 443. Enemies, love your, 278, 283. Energy, personal, 196 ; mystical states increase it, 414. Environment, 356, 374. Epictetus, 474. Epicureans, 143. Equanimity, 284. Ether, mystical effects of, 392. Evil, ignored by healthy-mindedness, 88, 106, 131 ; due to things or to the Self, 134 ; its reality, 163. Evolutionist optimism, 91. Excesses of piety, 340. Excitement, its effects, 195, 266, 279, 325. Experience, religious, the essence of, .508. Extravagances of piety, 339, 486. Extreme cases, why we take them, 486. FaUure, 139, Faith, 246, 506. Faith-state, 505. Fanaticism, 338 ff. Fear, 98, 159, 161, 263, 275. Feeling deeper than intellect in religion, 431. Fielding, 436. Finney, 207, 215. Fletcher, 98, 181. Flournoy, 67, 514. Flower, 476. Foster, 178, 383. Fox, George, 7, 291, 335, 411. Francis, Saint, d'Assisi, 319. Francis, Saint, de Sales, 11. Eraser, 454. Fruits, of conversion, 237 ; of religion, 327 ; of Saintliness, 357. Fuller, 41. Gamond, 288. Gardiner, 269. Genius and insanity, 16. Geniuses, see Religious leaders. Gentleman, character of the, 317, 371. Gertrude, Saint, 345. ' Gifts,' 151. Glory of God, 342.

INDEX

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God, 31 ; sense of his presence, 66-72, 272, 275 ff. ; historic changes in idea of him, 74, 328 ff., 493 ; mind-curer's idea of him, 101 ; his honor, 342 ; descrihed by negatives, 417 ; his attributes, scholastic proof of, 439 ; the metaphysical ones are for us meaningless, 445 ; the moral ones are illdeduced, 447 ; he is not a mere inference, 502 ; is used, not known, 506 ; his existence must make a difference among phenomena, 517, 522 ; his relation to the subconscious region, 242, 515 ; his tasks, 519 ; may be finite and plural, 525.

GODDAKD, 96. GOERRES, 407. Goethe, 137. GouGH, 203. GOUKDON, 171. ' Grace,' the operation of, 226 ; the state of, 260. Gratry, 146, 476, 506. Greeks, their pessimism, 86, 142. Guidance, 472. GURNEY, 527. GuYON, 276, 286. Hadley, 201, 268. Hale, 82. Hamon, 367. Happiness, 47-49, 79, 248, 279. Harnack, 100. Healthy-mindedness, Lectures IV and V, passim ; its philosophy of evil, 131 ; compared with morbid-mindedness, 162, 488.

Heart, softening of, 267. Hegel, 389, 449, 454. Helmont, Van, 497. Heroism, 364, 488, note. Heterogeneous personality, 169, 193. Higher criticism, 4. HiLTY, 79, 275, 472. Hodgson, R., 524. Homer, 86. Hugo, 171. Hjrpocrisy, 338. Hypothesis, what make a useful one, 517. Hyslop, 524. Ignatius Loyola, 318, 406, 410. Illness, 113. * Imitation of Christ,' the, 44. Immortality, 524. Impulses, kGl. Individuality, 501. Inhibitions, 261 ff. Insane melancholy and religion, 144.

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