That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. (Thomas Howard)

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

Thomas Howard

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