i am sorry and mental exercise... thoughtful sentence.

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i just came across this mind gym quote ... excellent phrasing / intelligent... good insights... in just a sentence!

 

William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903)Irish historian who wrote Rationalism in Europe (1865) and Democracy and Liberty (1896)

When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce,

when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will,

when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth

which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces,

they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion,

or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.

-- W. E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (Revised Ed. N.Y., 1878) Volume II, p. 76