"The Christian faith, sprung from the wisdom of India, overspreads the old trunk of rude Judaism, a tree of alien growth; the original form must in part remain, but it suffers a complete change and becomes full of life and truth, so that it appears to be the same tree, but is really another."
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Schopenhauer, Arthur The Christian System by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders
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