Practice And Science of Religion a Study of Method in Comparative Religion
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If one of us should so reduce himself, we should say that such a one does not know what he is about, although the individual in ques- tion might assure us he feels very much alive. To-day above all other habits of mind we encourage reflec- tion. In types of mind like the Sioux, men living in compact groups bound together by blood relation- ships, there is almost no reflection, or at least no habit of reflection. Even in advanced cases of the same type, in the ordinary life of the Greek city or ...of the Roman gens, there was the same lack of reflec- tion, the same inability to feel more than one scale of values at a time, and the same passive mind overwhelmed by the weight of collective beliefs. There were no habits of experiment or of discussion, 70 PRACTICE AND SCIENCE OF RELIGION and but little analysis of objects. There was no ques- tioning of the value of sensations. There was no search for the origin of an idea or for its right to existence. Every idea was accepted without reserve and as it appeared.
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