David Brewster Quote

When great truths are driven to make an appeal to reason, knowledge becomes criminal, and philosophers martyrs. Truth, however, like all moral powers, can neither be checked nor extinguished. When compressed, it but reacts the more. It crushes where it cannot expand — it burns where it is not allowed to shine.

More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856)