QUESTIONNAIRE[55]
It is being realized as never before that religion, as one of the most important things in the life both of the community and of the individual, deserves close and extended study. Such study can be of value only if based upon the personal experiences of many individuals. If you are in sympathy with such study and are willing to assist in it, will you kindly write out the answers to the following questions and return them with this questionnaire, as soon as you conveniently can, to James B. Pratt, 20 Shepard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Please answer the questions at length and in detail. Do not give philosophical generalizations, but your own personal experience.
1. What does religion mean to you personally? Is it
(1) A belief that something exists? Yes.
(2) An emotional experience? Not powerfully so, yet a social reality.
(3) A general attitude of the will toward God or toward righteousness! It involves these.
(4) Or something else?
If it has several elements, which is for you the most important? The social appeal for corroboration, consolation, etc., when things are going wrong with my causes (my truth denied), etc.
2. What do you mean by God? A combination of Ideality and (final) efficacity.