ABSTRACT
A live hypothesis is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed. The maximum of liveness in an hypothesis means willingness to act irrevocably. Moral questions immediately present themselves as questions whose solution cannot wait for sensible proof. A moral question is a question not of what sensibly exists, but of what is good, or would be good if it did exist. The desire for a certain kind of truth brings about that special truth's existence; and so it is in innumerable cases of other sorts and where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane logic which should say that faith running ahead of scientific evidence is the "lowest kind of immorality" into which a thinking being can fall. In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing.
