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There is certainly no infirmity belonging to us that
contains such a multiplicity of errors and fond passions, or
that consists of such incongruous and incoherent opinions,
as this of superstition doth. It behooves us therefore to
do our utmost to escape it; but withal, we must see
we do it safely and prudently, and not rashly and inconsiderately,
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as people run from the incursions of robbers
or from fire, and fall into bewildered and untrodden
paths full of pits and precipices. For so some, while
they would avoid superstition, leap over the golden
mean of true piety into the harsh and coarse extreme
of atheism.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 1.
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