Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Best Sentence Ever

From The Natural History of Religion:

We may conclude, therefore, upon the whole, that, since the vulgar, in nations, which have embraced the doctrine of theism, still build it upon irrational and superstitious principles, they are never led into that opinion by any process of argument, but by certain train of thinking, more suitable to their genius and capacity.

Oh, that Hume. He cracks me up. (And I thought I used a lot of commas.)

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