Religion

“I speak not now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the conventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, communicated to him by tradition, determined to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life.”

He’s not talking about you or the millions of others who “have faith” in the religion they follow, he is talking about those few ( and he notes arguably nut jobs ) in history who believed they had a direct line to the divine. Of course he also wrote long before psychedelics made this sort of first hand experience readily available.