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<p>&quot;<span class="gtxt_body">Our reason is quite satisfied, in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every thousand of us, if it can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticised by some one else. Our faith is faith in some one else&#39;s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. <br /></span></p>
<p><span class="gtxt_body">Our belief in truth itself, for instance, that there is a truth, and that our minds and it are made for each other, — what is it but a passionate affirmation of desire, in which our social system backs us up? </span>&quot; &#8211; <a href="http://books.google.com/books?ei=oOjRS8mwMYjczQSlq4iYCQ&amp;cd=1&amp;dq=William%20James%20the%20will%20to%20believe&amp;q=999&amp;id=lyvbavLJ8RkC&amp;output=text&amp;pg=PA9">William James</a>, The Will to Believe, 1896.</p>
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