text:  "Why should we always be timid and blind followers of the blind? Is it a test of wisdom to believe what is opposed to reason upon the partial evidence of doubtful witnesses? Is it weakness to engage all the faculties of the mind in the investigation of the laws by which this universe is governed? And if the perception of such immutable add eternal laws crushes and brings to nothing the fables of men whom you are pleased to call _writers by inspiration_ are we to reject them because our mothers and fathers who were babes and sucklings at the breast of knowledge were ignorant of their existence?" "Newton sir " I ventured to answer "made great discoveries and he revered these fables