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The rapacity of man has here its bounds: here you shall come, and no farther.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The rapacity of man has here its bounds: here you shall come, and no farther.”
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Burke reflects on the limits of human greed in the context of sacred spaces.
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