"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

God, Ignorance, Surrender, Today

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"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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