We can no longer be content with refuting our opponents; we… - Leslie Stephen

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We can no longer be content with refuting our opponents; we are also bound to explain them. The vitality of any doctrine supposed to be erroneous proves that it cannot be entirely erroneous.

Leslie Stephen

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Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. He was also one of the leading British mountaineers of his generation, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Thackeray's son-in-law and Virginia Woolf's father.

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Samuel Butler G. K. Chesterton Friedrich Nietzsche Francis Bacon Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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