"At this purely subjective rating, therefore, Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics. It would seem that she cannot be a mere anachronism and survival, but must exert a permanent function, whether She be with or without .intellectual content, and whether, if she have any, it be true or false."
January 1, 1970
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