I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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