The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is … - Frances Wright

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Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do. . . Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

Frances Wright

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

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