Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions

Will have served a useful purpose if it illustrates a fewof the ways in which folly mysteriously deviates into wisdom, and good comes out Of evil. It is a mere sketch Of a vast subject. Whether I shall ever fill in these bald out lines with finer strokes and deeper Shadows must be left to the future to determine. The materials for such a picture exist in abundance; and if the colours are dark, they are yet illuminated, as I have tried in this essay to point out.

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