I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (William Falconer)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

William Falconer

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