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The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
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The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.
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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
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For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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January 1, 1854
Died:
May 7, 1941
(aged 87)
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