Unfruitful are ye: THEREFORE do ye lack
belief. But he who had to create, had always his presaging dreams and astral premonitions--and believed in believing!--
It seems to me to be derivative, and to consist largely in BELIEFS: beliefs that what constitutes the thought is connected with various other elements which together make up the object.
The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either.
Mentally surrounded with that past again, Bulstrode had the same pleas--indeed, the years had been perpetually spinning them into intricate thickness, like masses of spider-web, padding the moral sensibility; nay, as age made egoism more eager but less enjoying, his soul had become more saturated with the belief that he did everything for God's sake, being indifferent to it for his own.
This implicit reasoning is essentially no more peculiar to evangelical belief than the use of wide phrases for narrow motives is peculiar to Englishmen.
For the ancients these questions were solved by a belief in the direct participation of the Deity in human affairs.
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it.
"This brings us to another point, more difficult to accept and understand than any other requiring
belief in a base not usually accepted, or indeed entered on--whether such abnormal growths could have ever changed in their nature.
And you are ready to renounce all
belief in your good sense, in your knowledge, in your fidelity, in what you thought till then was the best in you, giving you the daily bread of life and the moral support of other men's confidence.
But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments, and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the
belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Every man on board seemed well content, and they must have been hard to please if they had been otherwise, for it is my
belief there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.
And Norah was wrong to place a scruple of pride, and a hopeless
belief in her sister which no strangers can be expected to share, above the higher claims of an attachment which might have secured the happiness and the prosperity of her future life.