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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"His boasted reason seems only to light him astray, and brutal instinct more regularly points out the path to happiness."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Where, I again repeat it, is human reason! not only some men, but whole nations, seem divested of its illumination."
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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Reason cannot resolve. It lends a ray to shew the horrors of my prison, but not a light to guide me to escape them."
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