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  1. It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous im…

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  2. Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

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  3. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole ai…

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