III. The motives that lead to religion are natural and
human. Reasons why the objects of religious insight are
nevertheless conceived as superhuman, and, as, for our
individual experience, mysterious 44
IV. Can these objects be defined as realities or as "values"
that our social experience sufficiently brings to our
knowledge? Social experience as a source of religious
insight. Its scope and importance 54
V. The inadequacy of social experience as a source of
religious insight. Objections urged by tradition, by
recent individualism, and by William James 58
VI. The social consciousness as an indispensable factor in
religion. The consciousness of guilt as a sense of
loneliness. Love as a glimpse of something saving and
divine. The mystical aspect of our social consciousness.
Despite this mystical aspect of all our better social life,
our literal social relations are never sufficient to meet
the religious need. The resulting outlook toward still
further sources of enlightenment 65
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