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beautiful book so far; i want some of what he was on at the time

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

Thus began priesthood, choosing forms of worship from poetic tables. And at length, they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

And particularly, they studied the genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity, until a system was formed which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects.

The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses, calling them by the names, and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaf to lay his eggs on, so the priest lays bis curse on the fairest joys.