Adaptation Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

“Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.” quote by Mary Augusta Ward — Download Open image

“Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.”

Mary Augusta Ward

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