...believe a doctrine in support , H 2 of which we have not sufficient evidence. * contemplation, if a man begin with certainties he shall end in doubts ; but...will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.'1 4. We may reasonably disbelieve any statement in science which we perceive really contradicts...

...and prayed over, and is often only a preliminary step to an earnest and abiding faith.2 Bacon says, " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."3 It is true in many cases, as Voltaire observes, that " doubt is the beginning of knowledge."4...

...is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of jndgment. ... If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral aud peremptory, and not ingenuous aud...

...sincerely, with more or less asseveration, as they stand in a man's own judgment proved more or less. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their endeavours...

...error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgement. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 9. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most...

...unpardonable. There is, perbaps, no human inquiry, as to which Bacon's wise aphorism is more applicable : ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' " If even the opinions and suggestions I may offer should fail in accuracy, the materials will remain...

...of practical Wisdom. " In contemplation," he says (in any question of Knowledge, we add), " if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." With this piece of advice from the father of English Philosophy to the representatives of British scepticism...

...haec quae 69 Dr. Kitchin appositely quotes the well-known passage from the Advancement of Learning : ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' See Bk. i., E. and S., vol. iii. p. 293. Cp. Aph. 37. 80 It will be noticed that Natural Philosophy...

...a passage in the Advancement of Learning (bk. i.) in which he says, if not truly, at least finely: 'if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts (' eaque aliquandiu patienter toleret.' De Augmentis), he shall end in certainties.' ** Here commences...

...accepteth of them by a kind of relation (as the lawyers speak) as if we had known them before •' Another is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without...of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which ia for the most part magistral and peremptory and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be...