“Religions differ so much in their accidents [i.e., in their specific attributes] that in discussing the religious question we must make it very generic and broad. What then do we now mean by the religious hypothesis? Science says things are; morality says some things are better than other things; and religion says essentially two things.
“First, she says that the best things are the more eternal things, the overlapping things, the things in the universe that throw the last stone, so to speak, and say the final word. . . .
“The second affirmation of religion is that we are better off even now if we believe her first affirmation to be true.”
William James
Posted from Mentor, Ohio
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