Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Deeply Rooted

No deeply-rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse argument.  Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

-- George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), English philosopher, biographer, novelist, and critic, The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5) Vol. 1, p. 7

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