Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Charles II." Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902.