“The argument for Christian practices becomes all the stronger, when also nature, which is the first rule of all, supports them. Well, she is the first who lays it down that a crown does not become the head.”

— Tertullian

Source: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V

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