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Quotation from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature”
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism
The start of James's passage on drunkenness as 'the great exciter of the Yes function in man', which ends by calling it a degrading poisoning.
Citation: "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature" — William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism. (id the-varieties-of-religious-experience-q9)
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.
