How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule? (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury)

How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule?

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

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