AS TO OURSELVES 



that there is no real evidence for such a 

 supposition. 



Now let no one imagine that this diverg- 

 ence of opinion can be removed by Evi- 

 dence, because men are not constituted 

 that way. Not by science are men born 

 again, for however scientific they be, they 

 remain the same as the rest of us, in that 

 their opinions are settled for them, not by 

 evidence, but by Preference, wherever 

 preference has anything to do with a ques- 

 tion. 



Some may regard this statement as a 

 humiliating arraignment of human reason, 

 but whether humiliating or not, it is true. 

 Opinions, the world over, have little con- 

 nection with evidence, so that many of 

 them instead have geographical bound- 

 aries. This of itself is enough, for reason 

 as such has no more connection with geog- 

 raphy than with meteorology. Opinions, 

 on the other hand, come usually from the 

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