Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book on "The American College Game of Football," by W. H. Lewis, centre on the Harvard Eleven for two years, is published in the belief that "something might be written upon the game that would possibly be a little more help to the fitting schools and first year men in college than books already upon the market." The literature of the game at present seems rather historical and general than fundamental and scientific. Indeed one branch of the game, "Fundametals or Rudiments," has never been written...
Pessimism is essentially a religious disease, for which there are two stages of recovery. The first of these is the belief that behind nature there is a spirit whose expression nature is. The second is the more complete and joyous, and corresponds to the freer exercise of religious trust and fancy. The craving to know nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame...
...right, for you shall save yourself. This is why life depends on the liver. Life is worth living, since it is what we make it. Pessimism, completed by your act, is true beyond a doubt, so far as your world goes. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief creates the fact...
...developed by scientific methods. Dogma has a bad sound to many; but it is simply the church expressing what she means by her worship. No body of persons who have no way of telling their object, can have so strong a form of corporate life as a body whose belief is fully stated...
...Yokoi said in part: Before the great war between China and Japan in 1894, the popular belief of all white people was that the yellow people were a very inferior race, who could be dealt with as they pleased. The outcome of this war has changed this opinion of supreme contempt to one of respect, and in some cases even of fear, for in some minds the fear of a great Mongolian invasion immediately arose...