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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

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Time has no relation to Being, conceived mathematically; it would be absurd to speak of circles or triangles as any older today than they were at the beginning of the world.

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The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts.

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James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude
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Born: April 23, 1818
Died: October 20, 1894 (aged 76)
Bio: James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
Known for:
  1. The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
  2. Oceana, or, England and her colonies (1886)
  3. Short studies on great subjects (1864)
  4. Life and letters of Erasmus (1894)
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