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Most men indeed as well as most sects in religion think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error.
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He critiques the common belief among individuals and religious sects that they possess absolute truth.
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Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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