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Christianity Is Strange. It Bids Man Recognise That He Is Vile, Even Abominable, And Bids Him Desire To Be Like God. Without Such A Counterpoise, This Dignity Would Make Him Horribly Vain, Or This Humiliation Would Make Him Terribly Abject.

Bless Yourself With Holy Water, Have Masses Said, And So On; By A Simple And Natural Process This Will Make You Believe, And Will Dull You - Will Quiet Your Proudly Critical Intellect.

Vanity Is Illustrated In The Cause And Effect Of Love, As In The Case Of Cleopatra.

It Is Incomprehensible That God Should Exist, And It Is Incomprehensible That He Should Not Exist.

There Are Two Equally Dangerous Extremes-to Shut Reason Out, And To Let Nothing Else In.