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Disbelief See also Skepticism. Capys Trojan who mistrusted Trojan Horse; cautioned against bringing it into the city. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 50]
no one gave credence to her accurate prophecies of doom. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 51] anti-Nazi German; nobody credited his story of atrocities. [Ger. Hist.: Wigoder, 210] |
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| There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: --through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. In this view belief is not a positive phenomenon, though doubt and disbelief are so. Yet -- I take shame to be forced to confess it -- my brother has not yet grasped the nature of the Third Dimension, and frankly avows his disbelief in the existence of a Sphere. |
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