Did you brush your teeth last night?  Did you use water from the faucet?  Did you test the water first to make sure it was not poison?  If not, you showed a great deal of faith -- you did something even though you had not proved it.  You did not have proof, but you did have reasons -- it was not blind faith.  Your reasons were probably such things as "I did it the night before, and I did not get poisoned;" "I trust the chemists who test the water at the city water-works."  You had reasons, but not proof.  You had faith, but it was not "blind" faith.

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