The Sleep of Babies may be a weasel, but he's not a stupid weasel." The Sleep of Babies "The Sleep of Babies" is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the first season of the FX television series "Sons of Anarchy". It was written by Kurt Sutter, directed by Terrence O'Hara and originally aired on November 19, 2008 in the United States. This episode marks the final appearance of Sprague Grayden (Donna Winston). Abel is finally healthy enough to return home. Wendy walks in on a tender moment between Jax and Tara and realizes that Gemma is using her to get to Tara. Wendy confronts
Palace of the Babies William James's doctrine of the will to believe. "Between dogmatic belief and dogmatic disbelief," Bates writes, "James had cleared the ground for precursive faith, a willingness to believe. It was this position that Stevens occupied until about 1940, when he adopted a more active posture of voluntary or willed belief." There are two questionable suggestions here. One is that the more active posture is not implied by James's will-to-believe doctrine. The other is that "precursive faith" is leading Stevens back to the beliefs of the babies. Stevens wants an object of belief that is informed by poetic imagination, and he