So far, then, we have all we may act upon, and let me tell you that very much of the
beliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own so unhappy experience.
This brings us to another point, more difficult to accept and understand than any other requiring
belief in a base not usually accepted, or indeed entered on--whether such abnormal growths could have ever changed in their nature.
Further, the
belief that the constitution of a state is only the outward expression of the common aspirations and
beliefs of its members, explains the paramount political importance which Aristotle assigns to education.
It would be easy to show, by a narrow scanning of any man's biography, that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his
belief of what he should do; --that he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him, and accusing himself of the same things.
Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained
belief of a certain "unpleasantness" between his father and mother, to state that Charles Strickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as "an excellent woman," since Dr.
It would seem that having rejected the
belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it.
Then, too," continued the Lotharian, "there is always the hope, which with us is little short of
belief, that some day these materializations will merge into the real--that they will remain, some of them, after we have dissolved their fellows, and that thus we shall have discovered a means for perpetuating our dying race.
Mentally surrounded with that past again, Bulstrode had the same pleas--indeed, the years had been perpetually spinning them into intricate thickness, like masses of spider-web, padding the moral sensibility; nay, as age made egoism more eager but less enjoying, his soul had become more saturated with the
belief that he did everything for God's sake, being indifferent to it for his own.
Incapable of answering him; forgetful of the ordinary restraints of social intercourse--with the one doubt that preserved her
belief in Mirabel, eager for confirmation--Emily signed to this stranger to follow her into a corner of the room, out of hearing.
I hold the
belief that all love that is true is foreordained and consecrated in heaven.
In connection with this subject of "mysterious disappearance"--of which every memory is stored with abundant example--it is pertinent to note the
belief of Dr.
This therefore would seem an exception to the above rule, if indeed it was a rule; but as we have in our voyage through life seen so many other exceptions to it, we chuse to dispute the doctrine on which it is founded, which we don't apprehend to be Christian, which we are convinced is not true, and which is indeed destructive of one of the noblest arguments that reason alone can furnish for the
belief of immortality.
