Canterbury Flames

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    But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, every cause contributes some assistance to the effect’s existence.
    —Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)

    Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?
    William James (1842–1910)