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Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

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There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright. When the artist kinds the keynote, which that chord will answer to, in the dullest as in the highest—then he is great.

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Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

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