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This argument may prove that some reinterpretation of the results of physiology is necessary before they can acquire metaphysical validity. But it does not upset the physiological argument in so far as this constitutes merely a reductio ad absurdum of naïve realism. These various lines of argument prove, I think, that some part of the beliefs of common sense must be abandoned.
Boris Sidis; and Abnormal Psychology, by I. H. Coriat. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases, p. 584. Sanity and Insanity, chap. viii. The Soul of a Christian, p. 178. It should hardly need pointing out that the facts presented in the last chapter are not offered as an attempt at the to use Professor William James's expression "reinterpretation of religion as perverted sexuality."
To arrive at the concept of the Madonna, a far-reaching process of synthesis and reinterpretation must have been carried out before the Bible could be brought into harmony with the demands made by a cult of a mother goddess.
For though a postulate proceeds from us, and is meant to guide thought in anticipating facts, it yet allows the facts to test and mould it; so that its working modifies, expands, or restricts its demands, and fits it to meet the exigencies of experience, and permits, also, a certain reinterpretation of the previous 'facts' in order to conform them to the postulate.
To have seen in someone like Benito Mussolini the figure of a “Man of Destiny”, to have felt obliged to understand the racial theories of Adolf Hitler as anything other than the self-evident products of a diseased mind, to have seriously entertained the reinterpretation of human experience through dogmas that had given birth to the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin—so wilful an abandonment of reason on the part of a considerable segment of the intellectual leadership of society demands an accounting to posterity.
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