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The Varieties of Religious Experience 8James 9

 

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else.... Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone."
-- William James. The Varieties of Religious Experience New York: Random House (1929) Lecture I: "Religion And Neurology."
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