“Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.”
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.