RELIGION is, shortly, the reaction of the human soul in

the presence of God. As God is as much a part of the environment of man as the

earth on which he stands, no man can escape from religion any more than he can

escape from gravitation. But though every man necessarily reacts to God, men

react of course diversely, each according to his nature, or perhaps we would

better say, each according to his temperament. Thus, broadly speaking, three

main types of religion arise, corresponding to the three main varieties of the

activity of the human spirit, intellectual, emotional, and voluntary. According

as the intellect, sensibility, or will is dominant in him, each man produces

for himself a religion prevailingly of the intellect, sensibility, or active

will; and all the religions which men have made for themselves find places

somewhere among these three types, as they produce themselves more or less

purely, or variously intermingle with one another.