"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-Adam Smith
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"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.“
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