We agree, but we see all of reality's 'constituents' desiderating results, not just Homo sapiens. Yet it is slope of good-will on which in the larger questions of life men habitually live. Intellectualism's proclamation that our good-will, our 'will to believe,' is a pure disturber of truth, is itself an act of faith of the most arbitrary kind. Our bracketed comments. Our HTML numbered list.
Faith thus remains as one of the inalienable birthrights of our mind .
Of course it must remain a practical, and not a dogmatic attitude. It must go with toleration of other faiths, with the search for the most probable, and with the full consciousness of responsibilities and risks. It may be regarded as a formative factor in the universe, if we be integral parts thereof, and codeterminants, by our behavior, of what its total character may be. In most emergencies we have to act on probability, and incur the risk of error . If we are entirely ignorant of the conditions that make a thing come, we call it a 'bare' possibility.