On people's beliefs in religion and politics...
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at but have taken them second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Samuel Clemens
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909. Edison Film
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