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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- George Washington
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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