Excerpt from On the Authorship of the Sonnets Attributed to Shakespeare: An Enquiry Into the Respective Claims of Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney and Others to Be Their AuthorIt has been truly said that when the human will is strongly disposed to ignore the practical consequences of a fact, it has a subtle and most unlimited power of blinding the intellect, even to the most elementary laws of evidence. - gerald massey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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