
Machado de Assis in: Esaú e Jacob (1904), capítulo XXVII
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Machado de Assis in: Esaú e Jacob (1904), capítulo XXVII
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There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. VIII, par. 75 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding#PART_II._4
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