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...RELIGIOUS BELIEF "Place yourself at the centre of a man's philosophic vision," William James counseled, "and you understand at once all the different things...your post-mortem method, try to build the philosophy out of simple phrases, first taking one and then another in seeking to make them fit and of course...

...makes those who see it from without interpret it in such diverse ways. . . . Place yourself similarly at the centre of a man's philosophic vision and you...at once all the different things it makes him write and say. . . . What really exists is not things made but things in the making. Once made, they are...