It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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