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  1. An established religion turns to deathlike apathy the sublimest ebullitions of most exalted genius, and the spirit-stirring truths of a min…
  2. When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up way…
  3. No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority eithe…
  4. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasio…
  5. Some benefit has not failed to flow from the imperfect attempts which have been made to erect a system of equal rights to property and powe…
  6. I regard Shelley's early 'atheism' and later Pantheism, as simply the negative and the affirmative side of the same progressive but harmoni…
  7. Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of t…
  8. Shelley resembled Blake in the contrast of feeling with which he regarded the Christian religion and its founder. For the human character o…

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