I answered by saying that I had heard men babble of snakes in their boots, snakes in the bed and snakes everywhere in the room, but I never knew that snakes had anything to do with their madness; in fact, I said, such madness had a well-recognized and efficient cause.
Jacobs uses a metaphor about snakes to argue against the idea that religion leads to madness, highlighting his critical thinking.
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