“Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.”

Annie Besant: An Autobiography http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ey9hPV9brxoC&pg=PA89, p. 89

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