"The more supernatural and sublime the ideas, the ruder is their collision with reality and the more allowance must made for the feebleness of man."
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Zephyrin Engelhardt
1851 – 1934
Zephyrin Engelhardt (13 November 1851 – 1934) was a German Franciscan.
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