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“There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.”

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Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes…

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[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply…

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Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised…

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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful…

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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

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“One of the great differences between childhood and manhood is that we come to like our work more than our play. It becomes to…

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