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Every one knows how true it is of evidence, juncta juvant: but here everything is broken and smashed to pieces, and nothing but disorder appears through the whole.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that evidence must be coherent, yet in this case, it appears disordered and fragmented.
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