"Nowhere, I fear, have men manifested such infatuated trust in their own infallibility, such over whelming fondness for their own conclusions, such positiveness, such impatience of contradiction, such arrogance towards the advocates of different opinions, as in the interpretation of the Scriptures; and yet these very men, who so idolize their own intellectual powers, profess as almost exclusively chargeable on others. The true defense against the pride of reason is, not to speak of it contemptuously, but to reverence it as God's inestimable gift to every human being, and as given to all for never ceasing improvements, of which we see but the dawn in the present acquisitions of the noblest mind." W. C. Channing.