Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

“Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in pr…”

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