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Other cases, 178. Gradual and sudden unification, 183. Tolstoy's recovery, 184. Bunyan's, 186.

LECTURE IX

Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Case of Stephen Bradley, 189. The psychology of character-changes, 193. Emotional excitements make new centres of personal energy, 196. Schematic ways of representing this, 197. Starbuck likens conversion to normal moral ripening, 198. Leuba's ideas, 201. Seemingly unconvertible persons, 204. Two types of conversion, 205. Subconscious incubation of motives, 206. Self-surrender, 208. Its importance in religious history, 211. Cases, 212.

LECTURE X

Conversion—concluded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Cases of sudden conversion, 217. Is suddenness essential? 227. No, it depends on psychological idiosyncrasy, 230. Proved existence of transmarginal, or subliminal, consciousness, 233. 'Automatisms,' 234. Instantaneous conversions seem due to the possession of an active subconscious self by the subject, 236. The value of conversion depends not on the process, but on the fruits, 237. These are not superior in sudden conversion, 238. Professor Coe's views, 240. Sanctification as a result, 241. Our psychological account does not exclude direct presence of the Deity, 242. Sense of higher control, 243. Relations of the emotional 'faith-state' to intellectual beliefs, 246. Leuba quoted, 247. Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new, 248. Sensory and motor automatisms, 250. Permanency of conversions, 256.

LECTURES XI, XII, AND XIII

Saintliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Sainte-Beuve on the State of Grace, 260. Types of character as due to the balance of impulses and inhibitions, 261. Sovereign excitements, 262. Irascibility, 264. Effects of higher excitement in general, 266. The saintly life is ruled by spiritual excitement, 267. This may annul sensual impulses permanently, 268. Probable subconscious influences involved, 270. Mechanical scheme for representing permanent alteration in character, 270. Characteristics of saintliness, 271. Sense of