PATHOLOGICAL

ASPECTS OF

RELIGIONS

BY

JOSIAH MOSES, PH. D.

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Clark University,
Worcester, Mass., in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and accepted on
the recommendation of
G. STANLEY HALL

Clark University Press

WORCESTER, MASS.

1906

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'Error and evil are located in deficiency or excess. Even excess in virtue is evil, an excess of humility being abjectness; of courage, rashness; of prudence, corwardice; of patience, indifference; of economy, parsimony; of generosity, waste; of deference, obsequiousness. And so also an excess of learning is pedantry; of ease, indolence; of comfort, self-indulgence: of zeal, fanaticism. Right and justice are found in moderation, in the golden mean-in the true balancebetween overdoing and underdoing, going too fast and too slow."

Brinton and others on the relationship between sex and religion,

President Hall's parallelisms between love and religion,

Phallicism, its origin,

Renunciation and Restraint, its motives,

Hate and anger, their rôles in the religious life,

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Fear, an important element in the religious experience,

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