This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...faith. The new world of the self is a world of its own kind; it feels itself in and into (einfuhlen) whatever it conceives. Its values define its real objects. Thus it is that conversion not seldom makes real or brings near to the individual what he has previously accepted merely as instruction from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...faith. The new world of the self is a world of its own kind; it feels itself in and into (einfuhlen) whatever it conceives. Its values define its real objects. Thus it is that conversion not seldom makes real or brings near to the individual what he has previously accepted merely as instruction from others. Heretofore he had, to use James's distinction, knowledge about God, but now he has acquaintance. The process here can easily be misinterpreted. The convert does not come into his fellowship with God by inferring from the phenomenon of conversion to a personal cause of it. His experience of self-emancipation is to him, per se, a satisfying social experience; it is direct acquaintance with an adequate socius. In the testimony of converts there is a general consensus as to the immediacy of this certainty. We, as psychologists, noting that the language of each convert reproduces the instruction that he has received from a particular religious communion, are certain that there is a mediate element in what the convert feels as wholly immediate. We know that in accordance with the law of suggestion he experiences what he is told to expect. He may thus become certain of doctrines that may or may not be true. He may misjudge himself, thinking his motives to be purer and simpler than they are, or that he is firmly established when he is still weak and liable to fall. But alongside of this mediate factor there is a factor of immediacy also. Granted that his training has prepared him for the crisis, and that conversion puts him under the control of existing social standards and ideas of God, the fact remains that conversion makes these things real to the convert. Heretofore he had "knowledge about" them; now he has "acquaintance with" them. The...
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