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CHAPTER IV
TRUTH AND CRITICISM
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOGMA
In human nature there is no such separate function as a special religious sense. In making this assertion, I am agreeing with the following quotation:
Those who tend to identify religious experience with the activity of some peculiar organ or element of the mental life have recently made much of the subconscious. Here there seems to be a safe retreat for the hard-pressed advocates of the uniqueness of religious experience.[1]
Religious truth must be developed from knowledge acquired when our ordinary senses and intellectual operations are at their highest pitch of discipline. To move one step from this position towards the dark recesses of
- ↑ Cf. Prof. E. S. Ames, The Psychology of Religious Experience, p. 291.
