Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
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X. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY 243 XI. SURVIVAL AND IMMORTALITY 266 Photera theleist soi malthaka pseydhê lhegô, hê sklhêr' alêthhê; phrhaze, shê gar hê krhisist. _Euripides_. The case of historical writers is hard; for if they tell the truth they provoke man, and if they write what is false they offend God.--_Matthew Paris_. Quattuor sunt maxime comprehendendae veritatis offendicula; videlicet, fragilis et indignae auctoritatis exemplum, consuetudinis diuturnitas, vulgi sensus imperiti, et propriae ignorantiae occultatio cum ostentatione sapientiae superioris.--_Roger Bacon_. Iudicio perpende; et si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus; aut si falsum est, accingere contra. _Lucretius_. Eventu rerum stolidi didicere magistro. |
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