The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
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