arise, and inflict upon them
that which the generality of mankind most hate--the necessity of
revising their convictions. Let them, then, be charitable to us
ancients; and if they behave no better than the men of my day to some
new benefactor, let them recollect that, after all, our wrath did not
come to much, and vented itself chiefly in the bad language of
sanctimonious scolds. Let them as speedily perform a strategic
right-about-face, and follow the truth wherever it leads. The
opponents of the new truth will discover, as those of Darwin are doing,
that, after all, theories do not alter facts, and that the universe
remains unaffected even though texts crumble. Or, it may be, that, as
history repeats itself, their happy ingenuity will also discover that
the new wine is exactly of the same vintage as the old, and that
(rightly viewed) the old bottles prove to have been expressly made for
holding it.

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