Man is too helpless against cosmic forces, unless there be a wider Ally. Religion, the belief in that wider Ally, has thus the simplest of motives. Its arguments for me lie in the conviction that our normal experience is only a fraction, and in mystical phenomena. But by this extension of experience only possibilities are opened, and what most men want are certainties.
From Notes for a Metaphysical Summary, 1903-1904
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