THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMONTHE KING
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind,then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already workedout in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritualvalues in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even ourscientific doctrines, not even our
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-beliefs, could retain anyvalue as revelations of the truth, for every one of them withoutexception flows from the state of their possessor's body atthe time.It is needless to say that medical materialism draws in pointof fact no such sweeping skeptical conclusion. It is sure, just asevery simple man is sure, that some states of mind are inwardlysuperior to others, and reveal to us more truth, and in this itsimply makes use of an ordinary spiritual judgment. It has nophysiological theory of the production of these its favouritestates, by which it may accredit them; and its attempt to dis-credit the states which it dislikes, by vaguely associating themwith nerves and liver, and connecting them with names con-noting bodily affliction, is altogether illogical and inconsistent.P
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