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They consider the content with which men live under those governments as stupidity, and all attachment to religion as the effect of the grossest ignorance.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that viewing contentment under different governments as ignorance reflects a profound misunderstanding of human attachment to culture and religion.
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