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The first stage towards the discovery of
useful truths is to dare to think:
to prevent it is the first business and
chief anxiety of those who have a false
System to defend: to promote it, tha
of those who think are persuaded they have a true
one. + Be they who they wil who are of this, With all such I hold myself in communion: in communion much more closer closely than with
There is no system of absurdity so gross, as
not to have had its martyrs:+ + Wherefore, were there occasion, should not rank themselves so little is obstinacy a test of truth. [it behoves becomes
those who fight under the banners
of Utility to give the world to see let the world see, that
truth may have it's martyrs, as well
as nonsense.
HELVETIUS Helvetius has open'd the career of inquiry:
and traced pointed out the sources of demonstration
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