Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perceptio…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). Letters and Social Aims, p.183
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