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Quotes from The Foundations of a Creed — George Henry Lewes

1817–1878 England

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The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

The great desire of this age is for a Doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that Conduct may really be the consequence of Belief.

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

No deeply-rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse argument. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

The Foundations of a Creed (1874)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Henry Lewes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.