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"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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"From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty."
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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities."
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"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."
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"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
Society
"The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people."
God
"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
Religion
"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
Fancy
"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost."
Force
"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
Religion
"But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers."
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"The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god."
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"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
God
"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
Common sense
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