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We Cannot Begin With Complete Doubt. We Must Begin With All The Prejudices Which We Actually Have When We Enter Upon The Study Ofphilosophy. These Prejudices Are Not To Be Dispelled By A Maxim, For They Are Things Which It Does Not Occur To Us Can Be Questioned. A Person May, It Is True, In The Course Of His Studies, Find Reason To Doubt What He Began By Believing; But In That Case He Doubts Because He Has A Positive Reason For It, And Not On Account Of The Cartesian Maxim. Let Us Not Pretend To Doubt In Philosophy What We Do Not Doubt In Our Hearts.

Notwithstanding All That Has Been Discovered Since Newton's Time, His Saying That We Are Little Children Picking Up Pretty Pebbles On The Beach While The Whole Ocean Lies Before Us Unexplored Remains Substantially As True As Ever, And Will Do So Though We Shovel Up The Pebbles By Steam Shovels And Carry Them Off In Carloads.

It Is A Common Observation That A Science First Begins To Be Exact When It Is Quantitatively Treated. What Are Called The Exact Sciences Are No Others Than The Mathematical Ones.

And What, Then, Is Belief? It Is The Demi-cadence Which Closes A Musical Phrase In The Symphony Of Our Intellectual Life.

We May Say That Feelings Have Two Kinds Of Intensity. One Is The Intensity Of The Feeling Itself, By Which Loud Sounds Are Distinguished From Faint Ones, Luminous Colors From Dark Ones, Highly Chromatic Colors From Almost Neutral Tints, Etc. The Other Is The Intensity Of Consciousness That Lays Hold Of The Feeling, Which Makes The Ticking Of A Watch Actually Heard Infinitely More Vivid Than A Cannon Shot Remembered To Have Been Heard A Few Minutes Ago.