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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

— Rudolf Otto

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These materials are found in India, in more primitive forms not merely as a late period but in the remotest pre-Christian Kausitakt Upanishad.

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