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Often appears with: religious superstition · religious persecution and toleration · reformation and reformers · luther and papacy · justice as a virtue · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · duty, conscience, and obligation
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
Emerson claims that religious and political superstition is replicated in a person’s private life, and that reform movements repeat the risks to virtue even as individuals mature toward truth.
labor and such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite, the Thebais, and the first Capuchins. The priestcraft of the East and West, of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual’s private life. The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child, in repressing his spirits and courage, paral…