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“ Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons. ”

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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

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When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

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It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering, it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

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