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"The Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only soveriegn you can allow to rule you is reason."
reflections of the fire light danced around his hazel eyes. "The sixth rule is the hub upon which all rules turn. It is not only the most important rule, but the simplest. Nonetheless, it is the one most often ignored and violated, and by far the most despised. It must be weilded in spite of the ceasless, howling protests of the wicked.
"Misery, iniquity, and utter destruction lurk in the shadows outside its full light, where half-truths snare the faithful disciples, the deeply feeling believers, and the selfless followers.
"Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason faith and feeling provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
"Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light.
"Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death".......
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