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THE BASIS AND NATERE OF BELIEF.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Prof. Schiller is the great lender of pragmatic thunamist! thought in Beftuiji, As a follower of Prof. dapes he believes that he will to lies at the issue, and thus beliefs Fave" "a sunyival-talos.
A depressing belief, say sonte "foror of pessimism, by lowering our vitality, ed libiting our energy, Das become a factor in the failure
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have a definite bellef, If not in immortality, at least in
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["Problems of Belief" by Prof.
F. C. S. Schiller, Messrs Hodder-and Stoughton, Ss. 6d.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924.
more than
A TALL ORDER
Theudacity
Alch reasoning. Unlees. we know for certain about the future ssue that identical inferences life, or would you prefer to leave
"ROOM 13." ·
***** PALS FIRST, rin be made from identical facts it a matter of faith?" one person We are simply mumble to reason at answers, "Would like to know for Vival after death." Perhaps the Edgar Wallace is probably the
Puzzling from beginning to end all. The alternative to making the certain if there is a falure life decrease and the uncertainty of greatest writer of mystery stories is this story by Francis Gerry assumption is not to admit one i not of do not want to kur life due to the progress of which the literary world pos- Elliott of a headstrong youth and other, possibility, hit to erase to the it. Sevent answers are science. and the mitigation of perusal of
scanes. An almost breathless an elder of the stold old stock Think,"
about on the level of Newman's
his "The Green who set out together on the new Por, Schiller, we think, blinds factory girl, "If this life is the disease has had something to do Archer" proved that to say road of life. Their fidelity is put finself to the force of this argn-end, and there is no God to wipe with this decay.
nothing of "Captains of Souls" to the test when they both meet merit: Cardinal Newma does not away all tears from all eyes, I As
and now the well-known House the hergine-a lovely and charm- believe in muy guminon ground of could go mad."
thorough-going prag of John Long Ltd. publishes at ing young lady of promising The implied matist Prof. Schiller seems to 78. 6d, a volume of his with the beauty How they face the belief except in religious belief logic seems to be.
believe that a sufficiently wide-bove intriguing title, where one of his convenient All painful belief are false miracles easily steps in to save the The belief of extinction-at- might create it. Although he bable, and, writing in faultless
spread wish for
Edgar ordeal forms the ground of this immortality Wallace makes improbability pro-entrancing tale. identia this Tunnar of
death is painful Assent is one of the most interest,
i .. The, bellef of extinction sent volume, in other essays deal-in which character delineation is does not mention this in the pre-sympathetic style, gives a story
-A.G.F.P. ing pieces of fallacious juggling it
Pals First"-Francis Gerry is false. our language,
ing with the subject he seems to perfect; incidentu The replies of many
Eliott John Long Ltd., that the belief was due to intui-ordinary hundrum reader this a quaint criminal investigator: showed shadow forth this belief. To the exciting: a charming love theme:
78.6d.] tion or ipsedixitism.
seems one of the most difficult and an ending, which, to say the One of the most noticeable parts of pragmatism to fathom.least, the reader is not likely to tendencies among modern writers Prof. James seems to see no dif-imagine. It is a splendid novel; is the emphasis with which they ficulty in it, but all his persunsive- and even disavow the influences of beliefs
the satiated novel neas does not make the doctrine reader will not put it down until publishers has sometimes in amna- in immortality, the soul, and such palatable. "I confess I do not see he has finished reading it. This side, as for instance the offer of AmericaTE.... like. Prof. James stresses this why the very existence of an 1/1 his Human Immortality" invisible world may not in parting. It is the simple truth. (p. 11). Prof. MacDougall, too, depend on the personal response
is no more cliche of novel-review-de to the Prime Minister that The should not only write his own The question of why we believe But he holds a view of truth which their higher degrees of survival agnosticism on the doctrines of to the religious appeal." (Prof. Schiller would probably ohject, every undertaking. Thus inlay great importance on his own which any one of us may make
-C.G... autobiography but ["Room 13." Edgar Wallace: then stressively of all the mem also the thing and disbelieve another:
"tof vale" belie's may save
biography of Jimmy Thomas, anIČÍ of when belief is legitimate und] Newman's, and his view is built on ¦
resemblances
or kill mortality and the soul. 1 am James-"Will to believe," p. 63.)
John Long Ltd., London,bers of the Cabinet. (p. 154.1 when Do is one al the
nol aware of any strong desire for
7. 6d.) Some of the most interesting any continuance of my personality so uning panganatic subtleties that difficult and intricate problems at to the ordinary ready it mostestions
naturally surround after death; and I could accept guges tlie mind of ban.
Tommits to this. It is mons than what is supposed to be an almost with equanimity own generation we migla almost strange that though their views reversal belief of mankind-the going Materialism, if that seemed 21 thorough- classify the greatness of nineteenth- in so many points alike. Pot, elles in immortality. Prof. to me the inevitable outcome of -century-writers by whofing Thay Schilter
Schiller saw this many years ago,, dispsionate and critical reflec Jeul Iandled this subject or not. Cardinal Newman or The Geun- and with the help of the S.P.R. tion." (Body and mind: preface). Apart from the foron trestigens of mar of Assent in his volume one sent round a questionnaire on Yet is there anyone who has read the subject in works on logic and ↑ "Problems of Belief?" Both for the subject. He has spoken in through the works of Prof. James psychology the
men who, lave cumple object to the philosophical sexual-places-in-his-writings of and come to a similar conclusion mmed of the subject are four doctrine the auianity of the disappointment he exper-bout him?. Kingdom Clifford, Walter Bagahidi, nature.
Even more so is Newnan Granar af fenced from the questionnaire, this the
with
In The Muning Post," E. B. саче Stephen.
Oshort reviews "Is 11 Good Eng- And there could hardly those who at its fallacious interest of the public in the ques- of his Body and Mind be a list drawn up of the ten or fimprässiveness," Prof. Schiller den of immortality. The fact.of how demy greatest influences on our wash Whi" stricty scrutiny the matter is the general public in the soul- has caused him to London's Worldy," and says |---"1
Whitten, editor of Julyć belief centny's though which, could reveals that the uniformite of feels like that orthodox church scotch his logic or else to fall to lap my tuuls. Estamp with my eselile these mines,
tature is merely our will-toskrow's warden when Frederic Myers state the doctrine from the point le shoot-Hoorayat-the-top legitimate jugin from the habits of pressed things to au smproved assumion believed would bappen to him- taividual is, no two (body ting down of the school gam-Bot
to tell him what he of view of those who believe that my home of this set- with which to probet tas future." We confess we think the arguments answer, but at last blurted out: spirit) tut simply one.
affer death, He hesitated to and soul) or three (body, soul a
pestileritial and priggish of a book like the Probleus of suppose I shall enter into ever this failure to recognise their own the tubby files for saving, When her who would, if they could, egne Relief depend on this legitim-lasting bliss, but I do wish you Lelier's characterises the more it's me, being tireless loons and Ele assumption.** We see no flaw would not talk about such depress- act thinkers of the country utterly unaware that the phrase is in the following: In all reasoning subjects. The greatest rehat kind of exactitude can we philologically and logically correct, The whole question ofbelieve, as ever its tre altre, must be in century once said that if there questionnaire the
ingabout Tarts this postrilate, what-ligious teacher of the nineteenth expect in the Case of a seeing that time is a dative, Prof. Schiller tells us, is--male--variably assumed; Whether we came infallible information to which come from all classes in the meaning is, "them is existence in answers to not an ruative, so that the doubly difficult by the fact that it speak of the uniformity of intere, mankind to morrow that lies on the border cird of two
death community?
may direction. of the principle of sufficient ended all it would not make the
I could never quite sciences logic and psychology, reason, or
Prof. Schiller classes the belief Borgive the iversality of
least difference to the rank and in immortality as a "half-belief. Authorised Version for translating the inkers f the Assent to a logical proposition is the causation, we are uptang different file of the pure or the objects He nules particularly its tidal" it into It is " It is all year Jogient half; conviction, the psycho-pleases to signify the same thing. of their pursuits.
orical.The Writers, mentined To me, inle, it appears that the swers to Prof. Schiller's ques ebbs and flows with the health ninatives into
Some of the character-the way in which it well to turn obviously-required above, may be roughly divided into theoreti, in whatever form it may
tiounaire Acem two schools, those who emphasise be quest Etly expressed, is not so opinion. Others of the answers think, too, he might have noticed dive bearing, but when one asks:
to confirm this and age of the believer.
dutivos by Weimagining some pumphense with à the logical aspect and those who inch a distinct proposition, the seem to prove the falsity of Prof. how perceptibly the belief seems Who is there the mily suppart- emphasise the payoliologicat:---To truth or falsehood of which ear: be Schiller's practice this alhost amounts to a dismissed, as an attempt to form- men normally desire truth." Toof civilisation.
statement that to have decayed with the progressable reply is!
"I am here), or classification according ter t th intrinsic process of all the question: "Would you like to and savages even now, seem to than "Mo" or "It is me?"""
Early peoples, it is T who am hores, rather
Heyer
azice mentions
Prof.
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Cardinal Newman, and Leslie Assem tp. 83 pours his seora un and from the general, inck of MacDougall. Almost every page lish" (Newnes. 2873, by Wilfred They deck theirselves at daytime You're the first nun T ever met in
du mure pesent days one of the gontest and most interesting of our British jbiksophial-writery-Prof Fichitler-box and vertain aspects of this subject ainast his own, and is well known as the philosophieat leader of that partiendar forta o! | thought which believes "truth" to be a form of vulne
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