Superstition in All Ages 11 – Knoop · Verses Across
Freethought · Atheism
Superstition in All Ages 11IX.—Origin of Superstition
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Freethought · Atheism
Superstition in All Ages 11
IX.—Origin of Superstition
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How is it that we have succeeded in persuading reasonable beings that the thing most impossible to understand was the most essential for them. It is because they were greatly frightened; it is because when men are kept in fear they cease to reason; it is because they have been expressly enjoined to distrust their reason. When the brain is troubled, we believe everything and examine nothing.
