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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Dogma and Belief
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Selected Prose 1909-1965, ed. William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1975), p. 49:
Dogma is bluff based upon ignorance.
Id.:
Belief is a cramp, a paralysis, an atrophy of the mind in certain positions.