Quote#Politics & Power
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in…
Quote byWilliam James · 1842–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lecture I, "Religion and Neurology".
English (original)
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.
— William James
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