“Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.”

—  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) p. 366.

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