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“I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.”

Herbert Read · Religion

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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

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