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ISBN: 9781330053997 出版年:2016 页码:108 Arthur Clinton Watson Forgotten Books
It is an abstraction from finished systems rather than an insight into underlying motivation. No doubt it is entirely true that, as James' at the outset of this whole investigation pointed out, there is no specific religious nature, no peculiar religious instinct; nevertheless we do not profoundly understand either religion or any other human experience unless we see it from its instinctive side rather than from that of its overt activities and achieved results. There is a great practical difference between the questions, What is the function of religion? And Of what is religion the function?