The Essence Of Belief Is

Third, Consider The Insistency Of An Idea. The Insistency Of A Past Idea With Reference To The Present Is A Quantity Which Is Less, The Further Back That Past Idea Is, And Rises To Infinity As The Past Idea Is Brought Up Into Coincidence With The Present.

The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment Of A Habit; And Different Beliefs Are Distinguished By The Different Modes Of Action To Which They Give Rise.

A Quality Is Something Capable Of Being Completely Embodied. A Law Never Can Be Embodied In Its Character As A Law Except By Determining A Habit. A Quality Is How Something May Or Might Have Been. A Law Is How An Endless Future Must Continue To Be.

Generality Is, Indeed, An Indispensable Ingredient Of Reality; For Mere Individual Existence Or Actuality Without Any Regularity Whatever Is A Nullity. Chaos Is Pure Nothing.

The Real, Then, Is That Which, Sooner Or Later, Information And Reasoning Would Finally Result In, And Which Is Therefore Independent Of The Vagaries Of Me And You. Thus, The Very Origin Of The Conception Of Reality Shows That This Conception Essentially Involves The Notion Of A Community, Without Definite Limits, And Capable Of A Definite Increase Of Knowledge.