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 ... » Go

The grounds of those persuasions which are to be found amongst men, so various, different, and wholly contradictory; and yet asserted somewhere or other with such assurance ... » Go

For, to this crying up of faith in opposition to reason, we may, I think, in good measure ascribe those absurdities that fill almost all the religions ... » Go

The great obstinacy that is to be found in men firmly believing quite contrary opinions, though many times equally absurd, in the various religions of mankind, are ... » Go

I do not mean that we must consult reason, and examine whether a proposition revealed from God can be made out by natural principles, and if it ... » Go

Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind: which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but ... » Go