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Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to remember the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
May 29, 1874
Died:
June 14, 1936
(aged 62)
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