Two Truths Cannot Contradict One

And Who Can Doubt That It Will Lead To The Worst Disorders When Minds Created Free By God Are Compelled To Submit Slavishly To An Outside Will? When We Are Told To Deny Our Senses And Subject Them To The Whim Of Others? When People Devoid Of Whatsoever Competence Are Made Judges Over Experts And Are Granted Authority To Treat Them As They Please? These Are The Novelties Which Are Apt To Bring About The Ruin Of Commonwealths And The Subversion Of The State.

They Know That It Is Human Nature To Take Up Causes Whereby A Man May Oppress His Neighbor, No Matter How Unjustly. ... Hence They Have Had No Trouble In Finding Men Who Would Preach The Damnability And Heresy Of The New Doctrine From The Very Pulpit.

In Time You May Discover Everything That Can Be Discovered, And Still Your Progress Will Only Be Progress Away From Humanity. The Distance Between You And Them Can One Day Become So Great That Your Joyous Cry Over Some New Gain Could Be Answered By An Universal Shriek Of Horror.

If There Were As Great A Scarcity Of Soil As Of Jewels Or Precious Metals, There Would Not Be A Prince Who Would Not Spend A Bushel Of Diamonds And Rubies And A Cartload Of Gold Just To Have Enough Earth To Plant A Jasmine In A Little Pot, Or To Sow An Orange Seed And Watch It Sprout, Grow, And Produce Its Handsome Leaves, Its Fragrant Flowers, And Fine Fruit.

But Some, Besides Allegiance To Their Original Error, Possess I Know Not What Fanciful Interest In Remaining Hostile Not So Much Toward The Things In Question As Toward Their Discoverer.