Existential Atlas

religion, that you should grasp it more from the practical and less from

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the theoretical side. Personified metaphysics may be religion's enemy, yet personified morality will be its friend. Perhaps the metaphysics in all religions is false; but the morality in all is true. This is to be surmised from the fact that in their metaphysics they contradict each other, while in their morality they agree. _Phil_. Which furnishes us with a proof of the rule of logic, that a true conclusion may follow from false premises. _Demop_. Well, stick to your conclusion, and be always mindful that

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