"...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself."

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Source: George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

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George Albert Wells was a British author and scholar known for his critical examination of religious texts and the historical Jesus.

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