"The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare,……" — Henry Adams

The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes,… - Henry Adams
"The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends."

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