“I want that you should take care that the plague should not infect you—not the Black Plague, but the plague of Skepticism so fashionable among Wilkins’s crowd. In some ways your soul might be safer in a brothel than among certain Fellows of the Royal Society.”
It is an irony of our time how few people are truly skeptical, of both the bombastic lies and simplifications of "conservative" (or "libertarian") ideology AND the insidious assumptions and bad faith of "the left"
