Theoretically, I Grant You, There Is No

But The Extraordinary Insight Which Some Persons Are Able To Gain Of Others From Indications So Slight That It Is Difficult To Ascertain What They Are, Is Certainly Rendered More Comprehensible By The View Here Taken.

The Idea Does Not Belong To The Soul; It Is The Soul That Belongs To The Idea.

If We Are To Define Science, ... It Does Not Consist So Much In Knowing, Nor Even In "organized Knowledge," As It Does In Diligent Inquiry Into Truth For Truth's Sake, Without Any Sort Of Axe To Grind, Nor For The Sake Of The Delight Of Contemplating It, But From An Impulse To Penetrate Into The Reason Of Things.

All The Followers Of Science Are Fully Persuaded That The Processes Of Investigation, If Only Pushed Far Enough, Will Give One Certain Solution To Each Question To Which They Can Be Applied.... This Great Law Is Embodied In The Conception Of Truth And Reality. The Opinion Which Is Fated To Be Ultimately Agreed To By All Who Investigate Is What We Mean By The Truth, And The Object Represented In This Opinion Is The Real.

Doubt Is An Uneasy And Dissatisfied State From Which We Struggle To Free Ourselves And Pass Into The State Of Belief; While The Latter Is A Calm And Satisfactory State Which We Do Not Wish To Avoid, Or To Change To A Belief In Anything Else.