Truth, 'tis suppos'd, may bear all Lights: and one of those principal Lights or natural Mediums, by which Things are to be view'd, in order to a thorow Recognition, is Ridicule it-self, or that Manner of Proof by which we discern whatever is liable to just Raillery in any Subject.
Vol. 1, p. 38; "Sensus Communis". - Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)