“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”

—  Annie Besant

Annie Besant: An Autobiography (1893) https://books.google.com/books?id=uBA3AQAAMAAJ, p. 357; 3rd edition (1908) https://books.google.com/books?id=5zNPAQAAMAAJ&pg, p. 357

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British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr… 1847–1933

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