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To Act Well In This World, One Must Sacrifice All Personal Desires. The People Who Become Missionaries Of Religious Thought Have No Other Fatherland Than This Thought. Man Is Not On Earth Merely To Be Happy, Nor Even Simply To Be Honest. He Is Here To Realize Great Things For Humanity, To Attain Nobility, And To Surmount The Vulgarity Of Nearly Every Individual.

Man Makes Holy What He Believes As He Makes Beautiful What He Loves.

Never Has Any One Been Less A Priest Than Jesus, Never A Greater Enemy Of Forms, Which Stifle Religion Under The Pretext Of Protecting It. By This We Are All His Disciples And His Successors; By This He Has Laid The Eternal Foundation-stone Of True Religion; And If Religion Is Essential To Humanity, He Has By This Deserved The Divine Rank The World Has Accorded Him.

None Of The Miracles With Which Ancient Histories Are Filled, Occurred Under Scientific Conditions. Observation Never Once Contradicted, Teaches Us That Miracles Occur Only In Periods And Countries In Which They Are Believed In And Before Persons Disposed To Believe In Them.

Religion Is Not A Popular Error; It Is A Great Instinctive Truth, Sensed By The People, Expressed By The People.