One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.

Such is H.L. Mencken's math.

"The liberation of the human mind has best been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was a fraud.  One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms."