Infatuation With Superstitions
John Carter: Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven cowards indeed were we to shirk the plain duty which confronts us.
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Context: John Carter argues that he and his companions must escape and tell the outside world what they have learned about the Martian afterlife.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter IV, Thuvia