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Faith 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Dear me! dear me! this is very unexpected. I wrote you a 
long while ago about doubt, and now I suppose the seed fell 
in fertile ground! My chaste remarks have prompted a new 
question "arising out of the previous answer, Sir." 
You point out quite correctly that the doubt of which I 
wrote in passages of such burning eloquence is after all what 
used to be called "philosophic" doubt; and by "philosophic" 
people 
apparently 
meant 
something 
rather 
Ii ke 
"Pickwickians. " 
Not the genuine McCoy, determining action, but-well, 
rather like scoring points in an intellectual game. 
Now then (air connu) what is Faith? There are two kinds; 
and they are almost exact opposites. (N.B. The word is allied 
to Bide: there's some idea of endurance [or perhaps repose] 
in it.) Then the third kind, which is moral, not intellectual; as 
in "good faith," bona fide, yours faithfully; and this is 
probably the hallmarked sense, for it implies just that 
endurance which goes with bide, and is not dependent in any 
way upon reason or conviction . This then I may dismiss as 
impertinent to the question in your letter, and stick to the 
other two. 
Faith in its Meaning Number One was perfectly well 
defined by the schoolboy: "the faculty of believing that 
which we know to be untrue." It is at least the acceptance of 
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