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Sidgwick was a famous teacher.

He treated his pupils as fellow students.

He was deeply interested in psychical phenomena, but his energies were primarily devoted to the study of religion and philosophy.

Brought up in the Church of England, he drifted away from orthodox Christianity, and as early as 1862 he described himself as a theist, independent from established religion.

For the rest of his life, though he regarded Christianity as " indispensable and irreplaceable – looking at it from a sociological point of view ," he found himself unable to return to it as a religion.