To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of...

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of...

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English...

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English...

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has...

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has...

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell...

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell...

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to...

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to...

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to...

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to...

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for...

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for...

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all...

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be...

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be...

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the...

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the...

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless...

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the...

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the...

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that...

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that...

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental...

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental...

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has...

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has...

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that...

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that...

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the...

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the...

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon...

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon...

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon...

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon...

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on...

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on...