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viii  of a divine presence: examples, 65. Mystical experiences: examples, 69. Other cases of sense of God's presence, 70. Convincingness of unreasoned experience, 72. Inferiority of rationalism in establishing belief, 73. Either enthusiasm or solemnity may preponderate in the religious attitude of individuals, 75.

LECTURES IV AND V

Happiness is man's chief concern, 78. 'Once-born' and 'twice-born' characters, 80. Walt Whitman, 84. Mixed nature of Greek feeling, 86. Systematic healthy-mindedness, 87. Its reasonableness, 88. Liberal Christianity shows it, 91. Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science, 92. The 'Mind-cure' movement, 94. Its creed, 97. Cases, 102. Its doctrine of evil, 106. Its analogy to Lutheran theology, 108. Salvation by relaxation, 109. Its methods: suggestion, 112; meditation, 115; 'recollection,' 116; verification, 118. Diversity of possible schemes of adaptation to the universe, 122. : Two mind-cure cases, 123.

LECTURES VI AND VII

Healthy-mindedness and repentance, 127. Essential pluralism of the healthy-minded philosophy, 131. Morbid-mindedness&mdash;its two degrees, 134. The pain-threshold varies in individuals, 135. Insecurity of natural goods, 136. Failure, or vain success of every life, 138. Pessimism of all pure naturalism, 140. Hopelessness of Greek and Roman view, 142. Pathological unhappiness, 144. 'Anhedonia,' 145. Querulous melancholy, 148. Vital zest is a pure gift, 150. Loss of it makes physical world look different, 151. Tolstoy, 152. Bunyan, 157. Alline, 159. Morbid fear, 160. Such cases need a supernatural religion for relief, 162. Antagonism of healthy-mindedness and morbidness, 163. The problem of evil cannot be escaped, 164.

LECTURE VIII

Heterogeneous personality, 167. Character gradually attains unity, 170. Examples of divided self, 171. The unity attained need not be religious, 175. 'Counter conversion' cases, 177.