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“An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it\. 'But the facts, my dear fellow,' said his friend, 'the facts do not agree with your theory\.' 'Don't they?' replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, 'then, *tant pis pour les faits*' — so much the worse for the facts\!'” Charles Mackay, *Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds*, 1841 \"The inabilit...

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