Note 24 — REID AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON SENSE.[22]
Reading edition
They err.—This, however, can scarcely be called an error. It is the business of the sceptic at least to accept the principles generally recognised, and to develop their conclusions, however absurd or revolting. If the principles are false to begin with, that is no fault of his, but of those at whose hands he received them.
[25] Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. Part I. ch. i.