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I interrupted, and asked him what was the proof of the last statement; he said the proof was manifest, for that men babbled of religion, of God, immortality and hell, after they became crazy.
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Jacobs counters an argument about religion causing madness by comparing it to unrelated forms of delusion, illustrating his reasoning skills.
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