downfall of men?

Jun 01, 2006 14:00

He had evaded responsibility for his stresses and disasters by putting his faith in over-ruling gods; he had clung to arbitrary rules of conduct against all reason, and he had persecuted and sought to destroy every sceptical thinker, every heretical experimentalist in conduct, who disturbed the equanimity of his submission.
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He preferred familiar miseries to the mental torture of novel effort.
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Don't we all?

the shape of things to come, quote

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