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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER III
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It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself.
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves.

You cannot fancy a more sceptical world than that in which men doubt if there is a world.

It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretence that modern England is Christian.
But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.

Militant atheists are still unjustly persecuted; but rather because they are an old minority than because they are a new one.

Free thought has exhausted its own freedom.


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