On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

On one extreme is logical positivism, which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith ; on the other extreme is fideism, which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and physical evidence cannot lead to truth.

In a partial reaction, Pope Pius XI wrote the encyclical Casti connubii ( On Christian Marriage ) in 1930, reaffirming the Catholic Church's belief in various traditional Christian teachings on marriage and sexuality, including the prohibition of artificial birth control even within marriage.

In his book On the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence, Friedrich Carl von Savigny argued that Germany did not have a legal language that would support codification because the traditions, customs and beliefs of the German people did not include a belief in a code.

On the alleged genetic inferiority of Blacks on IQ tests, he lays out the argument and evidence for such a belief, and then contests each point.

On most accounts, evidential probabilities are considered to be degrees of belief, defined in terms of dispositions to gamble at certain odds.

In his De nova stella ( On the new star ) of 1573, he refuted the Aristotelian belief in an unchanging celestial realm.

In " On the Babylonian Captivity " Luther upheld belief in the Real Presence of Jesus and in his 1523 treatise The Adoration of the Sacrament defended adoration of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, an alternative document that says people have " freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari ’ ah ", without any discrimination on grounds of " race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations ".

J. R. R. Tolkien challenges this concept in his essay " On Fairy-Stories ", choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief based on inner consistency of reality.

On many different occasions ecclesiastics who spoke with authority did their best to disabuse the people of their superstitious belief in witchcraft.

Paley, arguing more than fifty years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, held that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator by drawing a parallel with the way in which the existence of a watch compels belief in an intelligent watchmaker.

Grim Fandangos world combines elements of the Aztec belief of afterlife with style aspects of film noir, including The Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront and Casablanca, to create the Land of the Dead, through which recently departed souls, represented in the game as calaca-like figures, must travel before they reach their final destination, the Ninth Underworld.

On July 30, 1993, explicit clarification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 18 was made in the United Nations Human Rights Committee general comment 22, Paragraph 11: " The Covenant does not explicitly refer to a right to conscientious objection, but the Committee believes that such a right can be derived from article 18, inasmuch as the obligation to use lethal force may seriously conflict with the freedom of conscience and the right to manifest one's religion or belief.

On March 1, Roosevelt assured Congress that " I come from the Crimea with a firm belief that we have made a start on the road to a world of peace.

On 9 February 2007, Branson announced the setting up of a new Global science and technology prize — The Virgin Earth Challenge — in the belief that history has shown that prizes of this nature encourage technological advancements for the good of mankind.

On May 13, 1965, the Bundesgerichtshof ( highest German court of appeals ) refused to open trial against Augstein and Ahlers, ruling that during the affair Strauss had violated the boundaries and committed Freiheitsberaubung ( deprivation of personal freedom ); however, because of his belief of acting lawfully ( Verbotsirrtum ), he was exempt from punishment.

On the basis of his belief that the Bible was the sole source for knowledge to attain salvation ( sola scriptura ), he preached that the mass should not be considered as the recrucifying of Christ, but rather the reception of God's gift of salvation through Christ.

On 27 July 2011: Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert wrote " Britain's drug policy has failed " and " It's time for a radical overhaul "; affirming his belief ( s ).

On the left is an apsidal mausoleum with an altar built against the apse: on the left wall a surviving graffito reading " domus Petri " either hints at Peter having been buried here or testifies to the belief at the time the graffito was written that Peter was buried here.

On the advice of a numerologist, he changed his name to Georg Brunis in the 1960s in the belief that this would increase his good luck.

On the strength of Sheela's tape recordings, authorities later stated the belief that there had been a plan that sannyasin women and children would have been asked to create a human shield had authorities attempted to arrest Osho at the commune.

On Orkney Scotland, sea eagle bones have been found in 6000 year old burial mounds, suggesting that the birds were revered by the prehistoric people there, a belief strengthened by the Pictish stone carvings of sea eagles from Orkney.

On the basis of his account of the virtuous moral agent, McDowell follows Thomas Nagel in rejecting this account as inaccurate: it is more truthful to say that in the case of a moral action, the virtuous agent's perception of the circumstances ( that is, her belief ) itself justifies both the action and the desire.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

On the other hand, Molesworth was naturally assailed in the Tory press.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

On his desk was a slowly accumulating treatment and script of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

On the contrary, he was pleased that his face showed a neglect of several days.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

On November 13, 1952, he was classified in Class 1-a.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.

On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.

On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.