Posted by Malcolm on March 19, 1999 at 18:52:09 {MW/xkyMS0F4R.}:
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the
miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion-to rid God of His Maggots.
Victor Hugo
(1802-85), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Mis�rables, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 5 (1862).
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