FAITH 
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Price's young lady of Brocken fame, who was so timorously 
careful of her virginity that she never felt it safe unless she 
had a man in bed with her. 
What is the other kind of faith? Like its hostile twin, it 
must have no truck with reason, at least no conscious truck, 
or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence l 
in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger 
will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, 
that the man one never beat before will go down this time; 
also its horrid contrary, the moral certainty that something 
will go wrong, even with the easiest problems, with one 
hundred to one in one's favour. 
I think the official answer is that one's certainty is in 
reality based upon subconscious calculation, so that faith has 
nothing whatever to do with it. If there is any answer to this, 
I don't know it. 
After all, that is neither here nor there; there is but one 
material issue: how to acquire that kind of faith. Suppose we 
hunt it up in that precious Book of Lies! Any luck? 
Steeped Horsehair 
Mind is a disease of semen. 
All that a man is or mayljds hidden therein. 
Bodily functions are parts. of the1hachine; silent, unless 
in dis-ease. 
But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I." 
This I persisteth not, posteth not through generations, 
changeth momently, finally is dead. 
Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in 
The Charioting. 
Nothing in that to contradict the official view, is there? 
Nothing in biology either. 
Or in Blake: 
I. "Confidence"· CU"', with; /#den, to trust = to trust fully. This confidence of 
which I write is usuaDy a sort of "bunch."