Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.
-- Anthony Collins, A Discourse of Free-thinking Occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a Sect call'd Free-Thinkers (1713), p. 3
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