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Increase Mather , était un ministre du culte puritain, auteur et pédagogue américain, dernier fils de Richard Mather, puritain anglais qui avait fui les persécutions anglaises en émigrant en 1635, et père du révérend Cotton Mather. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. juin 1639 – 23. août 1723
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Increase Mather: Citations en anglais

“Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.”

As quoted in The Truth About Alcohol (2005) by Barry Youngerman and Mark J. Kittleson, p. 129.

“It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned.”

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are accused with that Crime (1692); a variant of this has become known as Blackstone's formulation, through its expression by William Blackstone in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765 - 1769).