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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER II
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Your insincerity blights the natural qualities of your intellect.

You have so long tried to persuade yourself of the evil of every way of thinking save ecclesiastical dogmatism, that you cannot judge fairly even those to whom you are most friendly.

Cannot you see that the world has outgrown the possibility of one universal religion?
For good or for evil, each of us must find a religion in himself, and you have no right whatever to condemn before you have understood.' 'You cannot say that you have any religion,' she said, facing him.

He saw to his astonishment that there had been tears in her eyes.
'You cannot say that I have none.

The radical fault of your uninstructed way of looking at things is that you imagine mankind and the world to be matters of such simple explanation.


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