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To create a doubt, is to loosen them from their moral and religious moorings and to set them hopelessly adrift.
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Jacobs warns that creating doubt can destabilize people's moral and religious foundations.
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Fixed religious opinions in the minds of others, especially of the old, I regard as sacred.
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