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To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.
Henry More
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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Victor Cousin
Henry More
Born:
October 12, 1614
Died:
September 1, 1687
(aged 72)
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Henry More FRS was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.
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Enchiridion ethicum
A platonick song of the soul
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