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Shaken in their minds, they will go to that where the dogmas are fewest,--where they are the most uncertain,--where they lead them the least to a consideration of what they have abandoned.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgShaken in their minds, they will go to that where the dogmas are fewest,--where they are the most uncertain,--where they lead them the least to a consideration of what they have abandoned.
Burke suggests that those shaken in their beliefs will seek out the least dogmatic systems.
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