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  • The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.