 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 374 pages
...fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith_exists in its Doming. And wtiere faith in a fact can help Create the fact, that would be an insane...In truths dependent on our personal action, then, xfaith based on desire, is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing. But now, it will... | |
 | Henry Albert Stimson - Apostles' Creed - 1898 - 390 pages
...fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming. And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...scientific absolutists pretend to regulate our lives ! Prof. JAMES : The Will to Believe, 29. NOTE ii. When I look at the religious question as it really... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming. And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...scientific absolutists pretend to regulate our lives ! In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1901 - 534 pages
...fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming. And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...logic by which our scientific absolutists pretend tu regulate our lives ! In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Greek drama (Tragedy) - 1903 - 416 pages
...religion may be an error than to yield to the hope that it miay be be true? p. 27. "Where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...ahead of scientific evidence is the lowest kind of immortality into which a thinking being can fall." p., 25. "A rule of thinking which would absolutely... | |
 | Herman Gustav Adolph Brauer - 1903 - 192 pages
...religion may be an error than to yield to the hope that it mlay be be true ? p. 27. "Where faith in a fact can help create. the fact, that would be. an insane...ahead of scientific evidence is the lowest kind of immortality into which a thinking being can fall." p., 25. "A rule of thinking which would absolutely... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 648 pages
...the powers above him as a claim, and creates its own verification. . . . And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...immorality ' into which a thinking being can fall.'' And Blougram, speaking of Napoleon, brings out the same thought when he asks, Where do you find —... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pages
..."unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming, and where faith in a fact can help create the fact." In truths dependent on our personal action, then,...based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an independent thing. "Hardly a law has been established in science, hardly a fact ascertained, which... | |
 | Savilla Alice Elkus - Control (Psychology) - 1907 - 170 pages
...inasmuch as faith is a necessary factor in the realization of its object. "And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...kind of immorality' into which a thinking being can fall."2 To this class of options, now, belong not only the religious hypothesis, but all sorts of decisions... | |
 | Isaac Newton Stevens - Women - 1911 - 264 pages
...bookshelves, and taking down a modest olive-colored volume. "Here it is. 'And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane...scientific absolutists pretend to regulate our lives.' That is from the late Professor James, who is said to have been the profoundest thinker this country... | |
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There are, then, cases where a fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming. And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane logic which should say that faith running ahead of scientific evidence... 
