Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head. - William James

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

"Moreover, something is or seems That touches me with mystic gleams, Like glimpses of forgotten dreams — "Of something felt, like something here; Of something done, I know not where; Such as no language may declare."[228]"