"A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously, the clearness of our mental vision."
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Sermon XIV: "The Curse on Meroz" (June 9, 1872), p. 217.
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Henry Liddon
Henry Parry Liddon (20 August 1829 – 9 September 1890) was an English theologian and clergyman. In 1867, he visited Russia with Lewis Carroll.
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