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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: part of a phenomenon's connections, for we make it appear
admirable or dreadful according to the context by which we set it
off.
[229] The Lancet, July 6 and 13, 1895, reprinted as the Cavendish
Lecture, on Dreamy Mental States, London, Bailliere, 1895. They
have been a good deal discussed of late by psychologists. See,
for example, Bernard-Leroy: L'Illusion de Fausse Reconnaissance,
Paris, 1898.
Somewhat deeper plunges into mystical consciousness are met with
in yet other dreamy states. Such feelings as these which Charles
Kingsley describes are surely far from being uncommon, especially
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