At the Pulpit

To coin a cliché I feel increasingly entitled to use, experience has taught me that people who seek to strengthen their case by any appeal to what is or is not an alleged fact are suspiciously likely to be both incorrect and incapable of accepting the remotest possibility of their inaccuracy. Such people are, in short, either arrogant in the most proper sense of the word, blind conviction being a trait common to the truly dangerous and despicable, or pitifully proud.