“Every man who has thought, knows not only how little he knows, but how little every other human being knows, and how ignorant, after all, the world must be.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

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Union United States Army officer 1833–1899

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