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Émile Durkheim - If religion has given birth to all...
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. (Émile Durkheim)

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Émile Durkheim

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