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If the account given in genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? he was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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If The Account Given In Genesis Is

Robert Green Ingersoll
If the account given in genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? he was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.
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