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...nd weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind w... ...eally doubts; they were rather alien and, for the first time, uncontrolled movements of his intelligence. He had had a sheltered upbringing; he was th... ...een the common episcopal experience. Archbishop Benson’s early attempts at religious services re- mind one both of St. Thomas a Becket, the “boy bisho... .... The fine old abbey church of Princhester, which was the cathedral of the new diocese, looked when first he saw it like a lady Abbess who had taken t... ...were resolved to pin his suc- cessor to an immediate decision. Of this the new bishop was unaware. Mindful of a bishop’s constant need to travel, he w... ...ingdom were the leaders in these premature mental excursions. Phoebe aired religious doubts. “But little Phoebe!” said the bishop. “Kitty,” said Lady ... ...eternally against that Being of silence and darkness beyond the stars. The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and co... ... Scrope, let me insist again upon the eternal persistence of the essential Religious Fact: (Greek Letters Here) (Rev. i. 18. “Fear not. I am the First... ...come apart from the great world of faith, Catholic, Islamic, Brahministic, Buddhistic, that grows now to a common consciousness of the near Advent of ...

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... Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared. “The new servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are ... ...f without a word. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his 7 Jules Verne pre... ... somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s “people,” let it be said, are of wax, and ar... ...us hypogea, concealed south- east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist archi- tecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette. ... ... counted the richest native merchants of Bombay—were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which India... ...s very severe upon that kind of offence. It takes particular care that the religious customs of the Indians should be respected, and if your servant w... ...the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches. First ca... ...of every mystery, Passepartout suddenly discovered an explanation of Fix’s movements, which was in truth far from unreasonable. Fix, he thought, could... ...emples shaded by immense ce- dar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, wher...

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...rt dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty. Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous... ... glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice. And he looked so new, unbroached, pure as an arctic thing. Perhaps he was thirty years old, ... ... father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousne... ...‘Of course,’ he said, ‘Julius is somewhat insane. On the one hand he’s had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. Either he... ...was a thistle which pricked him vividly, but not too much, because all his movements were too discrimi- nate and soft. T o lie down and roll in the st... ... the lake. Gudrun had waded out to a gravelly shoal, and was seated like a Buddhist, staring fixedly at the water-plants that rose succulent from the ... ...er straying wits to- gether. ‘While you do—?’ she asked vaguely. ‘Dalcroze movements,’ said Gudrun, suffering tortures of self-consciousness, even bec... ...n con- science. Seething masses of miners met daily, carried away by a new religious impulse. The idea flew through them: ‘ All men are equal on earth... ..., they are all sons of God. Whence then this obvious disquality?’ It was a religious creed pushed to its material conclusion. Thomas Crich at least ha...

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...e tried. Unwisely perhaps. I have fol- lowed the coast, day after day—from New Quay. It has only added muscular fatigue to the mental. The cause of th... ...steep. Several times Isbister heard him stumble as they came down, and his movements were slow and hesitating. “Come in with me,” said Isbister, “and ... ...veined substance of deep ultramarine, and along it came the sound of human movements and voices and a deep undeviating droning note. He sat, now fully... ...o retreating men and fell again, and immediately Graham was alone with the new comer and the purple-robed man with the flaxen beard. For a space the t... ...empty glass to the busy figures and trying to ignore the scru- tiny of the new comer. “Is that—some sort of force—laid on?” “Yes,” said the man with t... ...erable temples of the Christian and quasi-Christian sects, the Mahomedans, Buddhists, Gnostics, Spook Worshippers, the Incubus Wor- shippers, the Furn... ... of hotels. And for those who took a more serious view of aeronautics, the religious quar- ters had flung out an attractive colony of devotional chape... ... grew—partly—out of something—you, per- haps, may remember it—an emotional religious organisation called the Salvation Army—that became a business com... ...us thoughts. At one moment, for example, he found they were traversing the religious quarter, for the easy transit about the city af- forded by the mo...

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...owland spent his days at her side and felt before long as if he had made a new friend. All his impressions at this period were commented and interpret... ...well. It had the stamp of genius. Rowland envied the happy youth who, in a New England village, without aid or encourage- ment, without models or reso... ...y, I imagine, a very fine fellow. When the war broke out he found that the New England blood ran thicker in his veins than the Virginian, and immediat... ...tions about himself, his age, his family, his occupations, his tastes, his religious opinions. Rowland had an odd feel- ing at last that she had begun... ...couple of hours watching a brown-breasted gondolier making superb muscular movements, in high relief, against the sky of the Adriatic, and at the end ... ...here was a sensation once common, I am sure, in the human breast—a kind of religious awe in the presence of a marble image newly created and expressin... ...ould have carried me straight into the bosom of the church. I had the real religious passion. It has passed away, and, as I sat here just now, I was w... ...ther; and at Florence he could at least more freely decide upon his future movements. He felt profoundly, incurably dis- gusted. Reflective benevolenc... ... brilliancy. He let them rest for some time on Rowland, lying there like a Buddhist in an intellectual swoon, whose perception should be slowly ebbing...

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...and feudal times, stood one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians... ...Baudraye fell, sad to say, into one of the snares laid for heretics by the new decrees, and were hanged—an unwor- thy deed of the great King’s. Under ... ...ause the ex- farmer-general had small hopes of his heir’s perpetuating the new race of La Baudraye. Jean Athanase Polydore Milaud de la Baudraye, his ... ... Japanese bowl full of flowers on the round table among a selection of the new- est books; when they heard the fair Dinah playing at sight, without ma... ...come to, monsieur?” asked the lawyer. “T o adultery!—For thus, monsieur, a Buddhist as he smokes his pipe may very well assert that the Christian reli... ...t superiority over the best women of Sancerre; she was better dressed, her movements were graceful, her complexion was exquisitely white by candleligh... ...sively his own. Men who have reached Lousteau’s age try to distribute the “movements” of this repertoire through the whole opera of a passion. Loustea... ... said very gravely: “Any moral regeneration which is not based on a strong religious sentiment, and carried out in the bosom of the Church, is built o... ...e vio- lence of evil promptings. Persuade your daughter to perform all her religious duties, and we shall save her yet.” Within ten days of this meeti...

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...s. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked of the day before just at dinner-time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was c...

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...led with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man cook had walked of the day before just at ... ...e children to put on for their walk? Should they have any milk? Should not a new cook be sent for?” “Ah, let me alone, let me alone!” she said, and go... ...“Very well, I will come directly and see about it. But did you send for some new milk?” And Darya Alexandrovna plunged into the duties of the day, and... ...showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives. They s... ....” “I know him by reputation and by sight. I know that he’s clever, learned, religious somewhat. . . But you know that’s not. . . not in my line,” sai... ...te of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure... ...mes I’m quite unhinged by it. The Society of the Little Sisters” (this was a religiously patriotic, philanthropic institution) “was going splendidly, ... ...II — Chapter 18 767 What relation to this revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached and did good too! It seemed to him t... ... called the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them?” he put to himself the question he had feared to ...

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...rly twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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.... Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the ... ...pers: but now it was a clean white shirt, and his best black trousers, and new pink and white braces. He sat under the gas-jet of the back kitchen, lo... ...utifully . He moved his head and his raised bare arms with slight, intense movements, as the delicate music poured out. It was sixteenth-century Chris... ...landlady’s preserve. “Oh, it’s you,” she said, bobbing down to look at the new- comer. None entered her bar-parlour unless invited. “Come in,” said th... ..., probably Jewish. She had chestnut-coloured eyes, quick, intelligent. Her movements were large and slow, her voice laconic. “I’m not so late, am I?” ... ...ll. “I think a man may come into possession of his own soul at last—as the Buddhists teach—but without ceasing to love, or even to hate. One loves, on... ...sitive and most essentially noble, is woman. This, in their productive and religious souls, they believe. And however much they may react against the ... ...utes. He wished to be quite sure that she had had her own time for her own movements. Then at the end of the five minutes he went straight to her room... ...u’ve got a love-urge that urges you to God; have you? Then go and join the Buddhists in Burmah, or the newest fangled Christians in Europe. Go and sti...

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...sked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 Of Human Bondage “ Y ou’ve got a new dress on.” It was in eighteen-eighty-five, and she wore a bustle. Her g... ...s sister; and while the ladies talked of parish matters, the curate or the new bonnet of Mrs. Wilson—Mr. Wilson was the richest man in Blackstable, he... ...lour , used only to receive visitors, and busied himself with the restless movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to ... ...lip had behaved properly; and Mrs. Carey re- marked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr . Cox was not in church, and somebody thought that Miss Phil... ...y as though it had been true. The pious atmosphere of the vicarage and the religious tone of the school had made Philip’s conscience very sensi- 57 W... ...assion equal to his own. The boy’s tempera- ment seemed to him essentially religious. One day he broke off suddenly from the subject on which he had b... ... of the hilltops. What had happened to him when first he was seized by the religious emotion hap- pened to him now. Because he felt so keenly the beau... ...merciful judge, reserving the flames of hell for the heathen— Mahommedans, Buddhists, and the rest—would spare Dissenters and Roman Catholics (though ... ... of England, and from that he led him to admit that the Mahommedan and the Buddhist were convinced also of the truth of their respective religions. It...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements t...

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...ACE CE CE CE CE THIS BOOK sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; i... ...ed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reade... ...ed, was one of the most disas- trous and one of the least venerable of all religious gather- ings, and he holds that the Alexandrine speculations whic... ... distinction between the Old Dispensa- tion (of the Old Testament) and the New. Every possible change is rung in the great religions of the world betw... ...nce, and already in a state of diffusion. People have begun to hear of the new belief first here and then there. It is interesting, for example, to tr... ... of statement and relationship is prob- ably only the opening phase of the new faith. Christianity also began with an extreme neglect of definition. I... ...at he speaks of as renascent or modern religion; he is neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Chris- tian. He will make no pretence, therefor... ...monstrated by a free use of miracles. Only one great religious system, the Buddhist, seems to have resisted the temptation to secure for its divinity ... ...e at last extinct. If that is not the very “resignation” he imputes to the Buddhist I do not know what it is. He believes that an individual which has...

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...No, say what you will, her very death was the death of a vile woman, of no religious feeling. God forgive me, but I can’t help hating the memory of he... ...d first glanced into the questions of life and death in the light of these new convictions, as he called them, which had during the period from his tw... ...or at his lack of knowledge. He vaguely felt, too, that what he called his new con- victions were not merely lack of knowledge, but that they were par... ... no knowledge of what he needed was possible. At first, marriage, with the new joys and duties bound up with it, had completely crowded out these thou... ...ht, looking intently at the untrampled grass before him, and following the movements of a green 34 Anna Karenina – Part Eight beetle, advancing along... ...bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey, to regale them with. Trying to make his movements as deliberate as pos- sible, and listening to the bees that buzze... ...nted him from enjoying complete physical peace, forced him to restrain his movements to avoid them, so had the petty cares that had swarmed about him ... ...ian church alone? What relation to this revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached and did good too? It seemed to him tha... ...led the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Con- fucians, the Buddhists—what of them?” he put to him- self the question he had feared to ...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ...idual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of ... ...nd never trans- gressing the ideal serenity; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convul- sive pain or mortal... ...ages of a market had induced to build towns. Ag- riculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism. And... ...Anglo and Italo- mania of Boston Bay. Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending t... ...l somewhat; but the master- pieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that tr... ... her methods are saltatory and impulsive. Man lives by pulses; our organic movements are such; and the chemical and ethereal agents are undu- latory a... ...r the surface of the water. But this is flat rebellion. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in ev- ery ...

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...n, a very loquacious gentleman of about forty years, with baggage entirely new and ar- ranged in an orderly manner; then a gentleman who held himself ... ...ompanion to drink some tea at the restaurant. During their absence several new travellers entered the car, among whom was a tall old man, shaven and w... ...tence, my attention being distracted by the passing of the conductor and a new traveller. When silence was re- stored, I again heard the lawyer’s voic... ... to be sure.” “And why live? The Schopenhauers, the Hartmanns, and all the Buddhists, say that the greatest happiness is Nir- vana, Non-Life; and they... ...o meet me with her coiffure, with her cor- sage, her indolent and graceful movements (and I see her attractive and ignoble features), and this jealous... ...g of Easter Monday, while the church bells were calling the inhabitants to religious services, and while every one else was about to enjoy a holiday, ...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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............................................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF ?THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? ............................................................................................................................................................ 508...

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” ...................................................... ...Brad- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starb... ...ted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions. 7 William J... ...—”Cosmic conscious- 8 The V arieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation—... ... my colleague Dickinson S. Miller, and to my friends, Thomas Wren Ward, of New York, and Wincenty Lutoslawski, late of Cracow, for important suggestio... ..., who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by o... ...urse, the Buddha himself stands in place of a God; but in strict- ness the Buddhistic system is atheistic. Modern tran- scendental idealism, Emersonia...

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...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...inally he found himself examining it. From that moment his progress in his new trend was steady and rapid. He became a believ ing Christian. And now ... ... and lay preacher in the lumber camps who is of noble character and deeply religious. An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up ... ...t is in him, though it cost him his life. An other man, just as sincerely religious, but of different tem perament, will fail of that duty, though r... ...ts not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, and the Quakers Episcopalians, and th... ...n—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s religious complexion, you know what sort of reli gious books he reads when... ... gilt helmets and by military caps roofed with a mirror like gaze, and the movements of the wearers caused these things to catch the sun rays, and the...