Excerpt from The Circus: And Other EssaysBut the religious value, the formally religious value, of the circus is even more obvious than its moral value. For the circus, more than any other secular institution on the face of the earth, exemplifies it may be said, ¿aunts that virtue which is the very basis of religion, the virtue of faith.Now, faith is the acceptance of truth without proof. The man who is told and believes that something contrar...
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