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But it is by no means necessary to resort to any particular teacher for an opinion which owes its birth to the weak struggles of unenlightened reason, and to mistakes natural to the human mind.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But it is by no means necessary to resort to any particular teacher for an opinion which owes its birth to the weak…”
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Burke argues that opinions can arise from the natural limitations of human reasoning rather than from specific teachings.
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