Shadows on the Rock (1931), Book III, Ch. 5
“No solitary miscreant, scarcely any solitary maniac, would venture on such actions and imaginations, as large communities of sane men have, in such circumstances, entertained as sound wisdom.”
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
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