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Religions which depend upon arguments are failures. A religion, to be…
Quote byCharles Henry Fowler · 1837–1908
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 137..
English (original)
Religions which depend upon arguments are failures. A religion, to be aggressive, must be experimental; men must be something and do something by means of it, which would be otherwise impossible; then they become both rhetoric and logic — persuasion and proof.
— Charles Henry Fowler
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