The Crillon-quotation on page 62 is due to Mr. W. M. Salter (who employed it in a similar manner in the 'Index' for August 24, 1882), and the dream-metaphor on p. 174 is a reminiscence from some novel of George Sand's—I forget which—read by me thirty years ago.
Finally, the revision of the essays has consisted almost entirely in excisions. Probably less than a page and a half in all of new matter has been added.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
December, 1896.
[[1]] B. P. Blood: The Flaw in Supremacy: Published by the Author, Amsterdam, N. Y., 1893.
CONTENTS.
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THE WILL TO BELIEVE [1]
Hypotheses and options, [1]. Pascal's wager, [5]. Clifford's veto, [8]. Psychological causes of belief, [9]. Thesis of the Essay, [11]. Empiricism and absolutism, [12]. Objective certitude and its unattainability, [13]. Two different sorts of risks in believing, [17]. Some risk unavoidable, [19]. Faith may bring forth its own verification, [22]. Logical conditions of religious belief, [25].