Note Footnote 2: — INTRODUCTION.
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"A grocer," writes Mr. Bagehot in an acute essay on "The Emotion of Conviction,"2 "has a full creed as to foreign policy, a young lady a complete theory of the Sacraments, as to which neither has any doubt. A girl in a country parsonage will be sure that Paris never can be taken, or that Bismarck is a wretch." An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.