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  • Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

    "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.
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