Charles Caleb Colton Quote

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but ...

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but ...

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but ...

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but ...