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stretches beyond this visible world an unseen 

 world of which we now know nothing positive, 

 but in its relation to which the true significance 

 of our present mundane life consists. A man's 

 religious faith (whatever more special items of 

 doctrine it may involve) means for me essentially 

 his faith in the existence of an unseen order of 

 some kind in which the riddles of the natural 

 order may be found explained" (The Will to 

 Believe, 1903, p. 51). Prof. A. E. Taylor writes: 

 "Specifically religious emotion, as we can detect 

 it both in our own experience, if we happen to 

 possess the religious 'temperament,' and in the 

 devotional literature of the world, appears to 

 be essentially a mingled condition of exaltation 

 and humility arising from an immediate sense of 

 communion and co-operation with a power greater 

 and better than ourselves, in which our ideas of 

 good find completer realization than they every 

 obtain in the empirically known time-order" 

 (Elements of Metaphysics, 1903, p. 390). 



Taking these descriptions as typical we see 

 that Religion includes what a man does, and feels, 

 and thinks when he has reached the limit of his 

 ordinary practical, emotional, and intellectual 

 tether. It transcends the ordinary and implies a 

 certain exaltation of feeling apart from which 

 its activity, its art, its ideas are quite undis- 

 cussable. Its language is not that of the street, 



