To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image. (Irving Babbitt)

To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.

Irving Babbitt

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