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The desire to transcend the human condition is, in most religious traditions, an invitation to heresy. In politics it is an invitation to tyranny, as we seek a perfection that inevitably eludes us and as we redouble our efforts to attain the unattainable.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians (1986)

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