"Though there is regard due to education, and the Tradition of our Fathers, Truth will ever deserve, as well as claim the preference.

If like Theophilus and Timothy, we have been brought up in the knowledge of the best things, it is our advantage: but neither they nor we lose by trying their truth; for so we learn their, as well as its intrinsic worth.

Truth never lost ground by inquiry, because she is most of all reasonable....."

I posted this after considering Eric's post "Sucking nectar".

William Penn - photo by Pisica Veronica "Brain washing".