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1822 T. C. Morgan Sketches Philos. Morals iii. 142 There is in moral science nothing more than in the other branches of philosophy; nothing mysterious, nothing to take on faith.

1866 Let. in E. Frame Twilight of Faith (1871) 10 When you tell your boy to give up the candy, because if he should eat it, he will be sick, and he obeys you, the child acts on faith.

1914 G. H. E. Hawkins Newspaper Advertising 57 The ‘blue sky’ days of advertising, when space was sold by personality and bought on faith, have passed.

1975 H. S. Thompson Let. 12 Oct. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 664 The first time I get a chance to balance it out in some tangible way, I'll do it, which is something you'll just have to take on faith, for good or ill... Anyway, I owe you one.

1989 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 73 494/2 The wisest course..would be to accept the case for polysyllabism on faith.

2005 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 10 July 16/3 I'm no historian, so I'll have to take it on faith that anyone not wearing tights would ever utter the statement, ‘Adieu until the morrow’.