“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”

— William Drummond of Logiealmond

in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=U9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15

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