John Locke on Authority and Tradition
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Alexander Fraser (New York: Dover, 1959), IV, xx, 17, pp. 456-57.
Tradition keeps in ignorance or error more people than all the other
[the other sources of error] together... I mean the giving up our
assent to the common received opinions, either of our friends or party,
neighborhood or country. How many men have no other ground for their
tenets, than the supposed honesty, or learning, or number of those of
the same profession?
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