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and are to be recognized, if sometimes with difficulty, 

 even in the most purely devotional mental states of 

 modern Protestantism. To those who like to regard 

 the religious instinct as something wholly separate 

 from thoughts, feelings, and emotions of obviously 

 bodily origin, this analysis of devotional states into 

 something more primitive is likely to be distasteful. 

 The only reasonable basis for such a distaste lies in 

 the assumption that there is something ignoble about 

 the elementary natural phenomena, a position which 

 is not acceptable to the philosophically minded 

 biologist. 



