"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
-David Hume
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.“
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