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Believe in God, and bid all knowledge speed. Sooner or later the full harmony will reveal itself, the discords and contradictions disappear.

— John Campbell Shairp Culture and Religion (1870)

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Reported, unattributed, in Josiah H. Gilbert (ed.) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1883, 1895) p. 530

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