Lectures VI-VII, The Sick Soul
Argues twice-born religion offers a more complete view because it incorporates evil rather than denying it.
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From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
James presents the twice-born temperament, for whom evil is woven into reality and religion must address radical suffering; includes his own disguised account of panic fear.
Lecture VII, the "French correspondent" passage
James's autobiographical confession of the epileptic patient vision, one of the most famous passages in the book.
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Tolstoy's and Bunyan's accounts of melancholy and recovery.
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