The Logic of Religion - A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Systematic Theology in the Graduate Divinity School #250389

It is an abstraction from finished systems rather than an insight into underlying motivation. No doubt it is entirely true that, as James' at the outset of this whole investigation pointed out, there is no specific religious nature, no peculiar religious instinct; nevertheless we do not profoundly understand either religion or any other human experience unless we see it from its instinctive side rather than from that of its overt activities and achieved results. There is a great practical difference between the questions, What is the function of religion? And Of what is religion the function?