The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind. (George Moore (novelist))

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

George Moore (novelist)

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