If we take away this foundation, that man is by nature foolish and sinful, fallen short of the glorious image of God, the Christian system falls at once ; nor will it deserve as honorable an appellation as that of a cunningly devised fable.
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“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.”
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