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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Francis M. Voltaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 87 · printed citation: Voltaire · subject: Fanaticism
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