We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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