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But in this lies, perhaps, one of its strongest claims to the faith of mankind.

— Robert Chambers Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

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The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

Geology at first seems inconsistent with the authority of the Mosaic record.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

This statistical regularity in moral affairs fully establishes their being under the presidency of law. Man is now seen to be an enigma only as an individual; in the mass he is a mathematical problem.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

There is nothing at all singular or special in the astronomical situation of the earth.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

The sick chamber is the place where the most angelic virtues of the human race have ever been called into action.

Sanitary Economy (1850)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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