William Drummond of Logiealmond Quotes

Sir William James Charles Maria Drummond of Logiealmond FRS FRSE DCL was a Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher. His book Academical Questions is arguably important in the development of the ideas of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikipedia  

✵ 1770 – 29. March 1828
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William Drummond of Logiealmond Quotes

“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”

in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15

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