ABSTRACT
As is true of any other point of view that may be characteristic of any other period of history, so also the modern point of view is a matter of habit. It is common to the modern civilized peoples only in so far as these peoples have come through substantially the same historic experience and have thereby acquired substantially the same habits of thought and have fallen into somewhat the same prevalent frame of mind. It will also be found true that the canons of knowledge and belief, the principles governing what is fact and what is credible, are more intimately and intrinsically involved in the habitual behavior of the human spirit than any factors of human habit in other bearings. An Imponderable is an article of make-believe that has become axiomatic by force of settled habit. It can accordingly cease to be an Imponderable by a course of unsettling habit.
