 Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...  The Monist - Page 499edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 406 pages
...forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the till doomsday, or till such time as our intellect and senses working together may have raked in evidence... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 360 pages
...us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith binges upon action. If the action required or inspired by...hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the till doomsday, or till such time as our intellect and senses working together may have raked in evidence... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 358 pages
...forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whnlg defence of religious faith hinges upon action.^ If the action required or inspired...hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by tha till doomsday, or till such time as our infc? llect and senses working together may have raked... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1901 - 534 pages
...forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 648 pages
...set forth. James sums up his whole discourse in the statement, " The whole defense of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression... | |
 | Savilla Alice Elkus - Control (Psychology) - 1907 - 170 pages
...reality. Obviouslv beljeFjsTieTS measured l5y~action : and thns "the whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds."1 But the action itself depends, we are told, on belief : when I stand on the precipice and... | |
 | Albert Schinz - Pragmatism - 1909 - 328 pages
...forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defense of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds " (pp. 29, 30). He adds that, in default of empirical proof, he is willing to believe the religious... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 364 pages
...we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon actioa If the action required or inspired by the religious...hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the till doomsday, or till such time as our intellect and senses working together may have raked in evidence... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defense of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired...legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1921 - 522 pages
...us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith binges upon action. If the action required or inspired by...hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by tho till doomsday, or till such time as our intellect and senses working together may have raked in... | |
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