AFFIRMATIVENESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Affirmativeness

... our point of view we see to be merely traditionary idols (in Bacon's sense of the word), but rather the opposite method of fixing upon that in another's creed which we find to be positive and affirmative, and gradually leading him to perceive in what its affirmativeness consists; and then, when once he has got the clue to the element of strength which exists in his accustomed form of belief, the perception of the contrast between that and the non-essential accretions will grow up in his mind spontaneously, thus gradually ...

— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward