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It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against which orthodox Islam ineffectually protested, promoted ignorance and superstition, and confounded charlatanry with lofty speculation. To live scandalously, to act impudently, to speak unintelligibly—this was the easy highroad to fame, wealth, and power.
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― Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam
― Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam
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Science may appear to have no connection with political freedom…. Scientists are too busy with positive measures, such as productive research and the dissemination of the results of the search for truth, to take time out to refute every crackpot notion that gets into print…. If the democratic process were applied ideally, and if enough people were to accept the claims in the article as truth, then publicly supported schools and universities could be depopulated of competent faculties, whose plac
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― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
