Quote#Truth
The use of the divine gift of common sense would teach the opponents…
Quote byBenjamin Fish Austin · 1850–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Defence at his Heresy Trial.
English (original)
The use of the divine gift of common sense would teach the opponents of the philosophy that what was shown to be fraud was not spiritualism and that a doctrine that thrives in the midst of the bitterest oppression and grows in the fire of persecution has some measure of truth in its keeping to give it vitality
— Benjamin Fish Austin
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