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As well speak of religion as the mother of cruelty because religion has given more occasion of cruelty, as of all dishonesty and devilry, than any other object of human interest. Are we not to worship, because our forefathers burned and stabbed for religion? It is more religion we want. It is more imagination we need.
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George MacDonald (A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare)