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Absence Quote by Adrian Desmond

“Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was…” quote by Adrian Desmond — Download Open image

“Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.”

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