"To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men."
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Isaiah Berlin, in Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (London: Macmillan, 1974) edited by Chimen Abramsky, p. 9
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