A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded for then it would be mere History. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded for then it would be mere History.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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