Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.


The Writings of George Eliot: Middlemarch, a study of provincial life (ed. 1908)

George Eliot Quotes

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.