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But under the higher religions there is no similar slavery and no similar terror.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “But under the higher religions there is no similar slavery and no similar terror.”
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Bagehot contrasts the liberating nature of higher religions with the constraints of primitive beliefs.
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