Word: belief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thought it wise to publish the results of its researches. The credulity of people in general, the danger of accepting the desire for the reality and ignorance of what are natural laws, are great obstacles in the way of such an investigation. The lecturer in closing expressed his belief that before long, some definite conclusions would be arrived at. The next lecture in this course will be given on Friday evening, by Mr. Francis E. Abbot of Cambridge, on Scientific Realism...
...therefore, make exercise accessible to a greater number. Nor do we believe that this has been the motive of the committee. In each case they have been led by moral reasons, either in accordance with their crusade against professionals or, as in the case of foot-ball, from their belief in its brutalizing effect...
...writer himself cannot testify to the truth of this axiom, but on the strength of the testimony of many friends he asserts a strong belief in the same. The same reasons, however, that make "All's well that ends Wellesley," a self-evident fact, lend a similar charm to a place not many miles from Wellesley, a place which receives more or less attention from Harvard undergraduates, but which has been rather overshadowed in the columns of the CRIMSON by its more famous rival...
That somebody should endow a fund, as Mr. Henry Seybert of Philadelphia has recently done, for investigating Spiritualism is not so very surprising. Spiritualism is by no means the least plausible of current beliefs; and, even if it were such, rich men would be as liable as any one else to credulity over it. When so sober-minded a body of men, however, as the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about...
...Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such argument belongs only to such men as are able sincerely to deceive themselves with a belief that they know as much, or nearly as much, or even more, that they are ignorant of. Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they do exist, and further suppose that their deception is so small that it is for all practical purposes zero, then...