«Intent» in this sense is sometimes called «animal faith» (though sometimes he uses this expression to refer to those
beliefs,
arising from a mixture of intuition and intent, which an agent practically engaged with the world
around him can not honestly deny that he holds for true).
And when reason, which works with equal truth, whether she be in the circle of the diverse or of the same — in voiceless silence holding her onward course in the sphere of the self - moved — when reason, I say, is hovering
around the sensible world and when the circle of the diverse also moving tnily imparts the intimations of sense to the whole soul, then
arise opinions and
beliefs sure and certain.