There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body.

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There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man. | Inscribed on the Library of Congress, quoted in Herbert Small, Handbook of the New Library of Congress (1897) p. 53

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