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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: of demonstration which I sketched to you in the first lecture.
Of the farther office of religion as a metaphysical revelation I
will say nothing now.
But to foreshadow the terminus of one's investigations is one
thing, and to arrive there safely is another. In the next
lecture, abandoning the extreme generalities which have engrossed
us hitherto, I propose that we begin our actual journey by
addressing ourselves directly to the concrete facts.
Lecture III
THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the
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