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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: John Mill, and Professor Bain, have followed more or less
consistently the same method; and Shadworth Hodgson has used the
principle with full explicitness. When all is said and done, it
was English and Scotch writers, and not Kant, who introduced "the
critical method" into philosophy, the one method fitted to make
philosophy a study worthy of serious men. For what seriousness
can possibly remain in debating philosophic propositions that
will never make an appreciable difference to us in action? And
what could it matter, if all propositions were practically
indifferent, which of them we should agree to call true or which
false?
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