Many supernatural stories rest on the evidence of rough
unlettered men, like fishermen and peasants; and most criminal
trials depend on the detailed testimony of quite uneducated people.
It may be remarked that we never throw a doubt on the value
of ignorant evidence when it is a question of a judge hanging
a man, but only when it is a question of a saint healing him.
-The Uses of Diversity (1921)
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