The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment

Truth Is That Concordance Of An Abstract Statement With The Ideal Limit Towards Which Endless Investigation Would Tend To Bring Scientific Belief, Which Concordance The Abstract Statement May Possess By Virtue Of The Confession Of Its Inaccuracy And One-sidedness, And This Confession Is An Essential Ingredient Of Truth.

It Is Not Too Much To Say That Next After The Passion To Learn There Is No Quality So Indispensable To The Successful Prosecutionof Science As Imagination. Find Me A People Whose Early Medicine Is Not Mixed Up With Magic And Incantations, And I Will Find You A People Devoid Of All Scientific Ability.

Theology, I Am Persuaded, Derives Its Initial Impulse From A Religious Wavering; For There Is Quite As Much, Or More, That Is Mysterious And Calculated To Awaken Scientific Curiosity In The Intercourse With God, And It [is] A Problem Quite Analogous To That Of Theology.

Every Man Is Fully Satisfied That There Is Such A Thing As Truth, Or He Would Not Ask Any Question.

When An Image Is Said To Be Singular, It Is Meant That It Is Absolutely Determinate In All Respects. Every Possible Character, Or The Negative Thereof, Must Be True Of Such An Image.