### Clue: Belief in nature (10)
### Answer: PERSUASION 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Belief,nature
 Double defn: 1st: A belief or set of beliefs, especially political or religious ones, as in "he was of the Marxist persuasion"; and 2nd: Type/sort, as in "peoples of the Latin persuasion", a somewhat humorous usage as an extension the former definition.