"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

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"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."

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