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Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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