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A Handful Of Soldiers Is Always Better Than A Mouthful Of Arguments.

Most Men Of Education Are More Superstitious Than They Admit - Nay, Than They Think.

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

As Nations Improve, So Do Their Gods.

Superstition Originates Among Ordinary People In The Early And All Too Zealous Instruction They Receive In Religion: They Hear Of Mysteries, Miracles, Deeds Of The Devil, And Consider It Very Probable That Things Of This Sort Could Occur In Everything Anywhere.