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Belief (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world is the universal prejudice — hidden because it pervades everything natural, thoroughly and without pause.

Belief (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a genus that splits into certainty, supposal and doubt as co-ordinate species, the way sensory quality splits into colour and sound — a radically false doctrine.

Belief (n.) stirs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in us before we know it: real beliefs, movements of pleasure, desires, even resolves are already lively before the Ego "gets busy" judging, desiring, willing.

Belief (n.) changes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its modalities — certain, possible, probable, doubtful — far oftener in recollection, and often without any thinking, concept or predicative judgment playing any part at all.

Belief (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the modern age simply changed address: as faith in God hardened into lifeless convention, the educated put their faith in autonomous science — and now that faith too is languishing.

Belief (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠weight: in harmonious experience its motivating power steadily grows; countermotives make it suffer; in doubt rival positings balance one another; one is outweighed and abandoned.