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Date: 1748, 1777
"Chaced from the open country, these robbers [i.e., superstitions] fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
Date: 1748, 1777
"You afterwards become so enamoured of this offspring of your brain, that you imagine it impossible, but he must produce something greater and more perfect than the present scene of things, which is so full of ill and disorder."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)
