"If a close examination of the evidences of……" — Simon Greenleaf

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected… - Simon Greenleaf

"If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error."

— Simon Greenleaf

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