“Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.”

—  James Anthony Froude , book The Nemesis of Faith

Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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