| WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...overbeliefs. Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...wider self through which saving experiences come, 1 a positive content of religious experience which, it seems to me, is literally and objectively true... | |
| William James - Conversation - 1902 - 604 pages
...overbeliefs. Disregarding the over-beliefs, and confining ourselves to what is common and generic, we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...with a wider self through which saving experiences come,1 a positive content of religious experience which, it seems to me, is literally and objectively... | |
| Literature - 1902 - 916 pages
...visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance, and that "the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences may come." The usual effect of such experience, whether it be sudden or gradual, is the "sense of the... | |
| Horatio Willis Dresser - Religion - 1903 - 468 pages
...zest is added to life. There is an assurance of safety, a sentiment of peace and trust. The discovery that the "conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come" brings a sense of freedom, a joy, a power to do good, which wonderfully transforms and uplifts the... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1903 - 574 pages
...religious experience which,' as it seems to him, ' is literally and objectively true as far as it goes,' that ' the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which wider experiences come" (P- 51S)- Students of Lotze will perhaps think here of that philosopher's doctrine... | |
| John Thomas Driscoll - God - 1904 - 440 pages
...connected is on its hither side the subconscious continuation of our conscious life," p. 512. Thus " we have in the fact that the conscious person is"...literally and objectively true as far as it goes," p. 515. In explaining the " farther limits of this extension of our personality," he writes : " The... | |
| John Watson - Religion - 1907 - 526 pages
...union with the power beyond us is a sense of something, not merely apparently, but literally true." l " We have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...come, a positive content of religious experience which is literally and objectively true as far as it goes." 2 But what is the positive content of this experience... | |
| John Watson - Religion - 1907 - 524 pages
...with the power beyond us is a sense of something, not 'merely apparently, l>ut literally true." * " We have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...wider self through which saving experiences come, a pos_iiijje_content of religious experience which is literally and objectively true as far as it goes."... | |
| Theology - 1908 - 716 pages
...Religious Experience, in which is summarized what Mr. James considers the philosophic outcome of the book: We have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...literally and objectively true as far as it goes. This of course does not dismiss polytheism from the rank of a very possible theory, as James takes... | |
| George Barton Cutten - Christianity - 1908 - 532 pages
...relaxation and in the peace and unification of aim resulting therefrom. 'We have,' to quote James, 'in the fact that the conscious person is continuous...experience which, it seems to me, is literally and positively true, as far as it goes. The practical needs of religion are met by this belief.' Least... | |
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