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What is now often said, that man need not know God, and may yet have the knowledge of this relation, is false. Since God is the First, He determines the relation, and therefore in order to know what is the truth of the relation, man must know God.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1832)

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