1. Commentary, 2, no. 4 (October 1946), p. 316.
2. Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Dread (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1944), p. 134n.
3. C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1944), pp. 119–20.
4. See W. V. Quine and J. S. Ullian, The Web of Belief (New York: Random House, 1970), p. 43ff, for an account of the conservative principle: an hypothesis proposed for our belief “may have to conflict with some of our previous beliefs; but the fewer the better.”
5. Religion and the Modern Mind (New York: Lippincott, 1960), pp. 90, 94, 107, 109.