Peirce insisted that faith in God comes not inductively or deductively but abductively, as the beauty of God opens in the imagination a leap of faith: “A man looks upon nature, sees its sublimity and beauty, and his spirit gradually rises to the idea of God. He does not see the Divinity, nor does nature prove to him the existence of that Being, but it does excite his mind and imagination until the idea becomes rooted in his heart.
