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Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26. humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26. humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253.”
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Burke argues that humility is foundational to Christianity and that it cannot degrade humanity.
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