Words from Robert Ingersoll - 9

The gentlemen who hold views against mine, if they had any evidence, would have no fears - not the slightest. If a man has a diamond that has been examined by the finest lapidaries of the world, and some ignorant stonecutter tells him that it is nothing but an ordinary rock, he laughs at him; but if it has not been examine by lapidaries, and he is a little suspicious himself that it is not genuine, it makes him mad.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is no fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

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