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Quotation from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
“the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine”
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic
James's working definition of religion for the purposes of the lectures.
Citation: "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine" — William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic. (id the-varieties-of-religious-experience-q3)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
