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Are the clergy true teachers or false? Is the body of ideas that they merchant true
or not true ? If it is not true, then I can imagine no prudent and profitable traffic
with them. They have a right, of course, to be heard, but they have no more right
to ...
Are the clergy true teachers or false? Is the body of ideas that they merchant true
or not true ? If it is not true, then I can imagine no prudent and profitable traffic
with them. They have a right, of course, to be heard, but they have no more right
to ...
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But I am not willing to listen to the man who argues that what might be or ought to
be true is somehow superior to what is true. One Copernicus, it seems to me, is
worth all the Popes who ever lived, and all the bishops and archbishops, and all
...
But I am not willing to listen to the man who argues that what might be or ought to
be true is somehow superior to what is true. One Copernicus, it seems to me, is
worth all the Popes who ever lived, and all the bishops and archbishops, and all
...
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Not because what we say matters to anyone but ourselves, but because when we
fail to speak what we do believe is true — or substitute for what we think is true,
words which we think are not true — then inevitably we lose whatever ...
Not because what we say matters to anyone but ourselves, but because when we
fail to speak what we do believe is true — or substitute for what we think is true,
words which we think are not true — then inevitably we lose whatever ...
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