Unanimism : a Study of Conversion And Some Contemporary French Poets : Being a Paper Read Before "the Heretics" On November 25, 1912
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Davenport's Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals. William James's book is probably famiUar to you all. Mr. Davenport's book is much less brilliant and fascinating, but a very useful supplement, because less sympathetic ; Unanimism. 2i it is the work of a man by nature rather rationaUst than mystic. Also, in Mr. James's book we get the higher forms of mystical experience: in Mr. Davenport's the cruder revivalist forms of con- version largely dependent on crowd psychology and herd suggestion. F...rom these two books certain facts clearly emerge. (i) What we call conversion is only the sudden, crude and rather violent form of what is known as the mystical state. (2) The phenomena of the mystical state can be noted and examined quite apart from the intellectual account given of them by the patient, the mystic, a converted man himself. What I mean is this, the patient explains his experience in terms of whatever theology he has been brought up in. Generally he explains this experience as a revelation of, through union with, a god.
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