Thought involves a little charlatanism.

Well, this is only a story, isn’t it? I mean, our patrons, anyone who comes to this park, are they going to take this to heart, Mister Shake?’They’ll take what pieces they want, and everything...

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it...

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against...