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Consequent Quotes by Frances Wright
- A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
- Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something…
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