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original) religious bias, though this may be in 

 part due to early training. ... I take con- 

 siderable pains in the investigation of religious 

 matters, one of my amusements being the collec- 

 tion of a considerable theological library, with 

 the books of which I am familiar." 



Dogmatic interest. " I have no more doubt 

 about the plenary inspiration of Scripture than I 

 have about the simplest axiom in mathematics." 

 [I class this exceptional reply under " dogmatic 

 interest " because the remainder of the writer's 

 brief communication hardly suggests the de- 

 pendent frame of mind that is characteristic of 

 " piety " -e.g. , "Never received or asked a 

 single favour or a single farthing for anything I 

 ever wrote or did."] 



Religious bias. 1. " Keligious bias." 2. " Of 

 a religious bias of thought." 3. " Eeligious 

 views liberal, but strongly anti-materialistic." 4. 

 " Early religious impressions strong, but have, on 

 the dogmatic side, quite disappeared. The belief 

 in a permanent antithesis between good and 



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