“[...] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.” TruthLies Book:The Camel: His Organization, Habits And Uses Source: The Camel: His Organization, Habits And Uses
“Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.” TruthScienceModernErrorsReplacedFablesSuperstitiousModern SciencePicturesque Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh