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Not to put faith in Horace Greeley is to act not only without evidence, but against evidence so manifest and constant in unbroken continuity as to seem like a law of Nature.
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gutenberg.orgNot to put faith in Horace Greeley is to act not only without evidence, but against evidence so manifest and constant in unbroken continuity as to seem like a law of Nature.
Sumner asserts that failing to trust Horace Greeley is irrational given the evidence of his reliability.
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