“Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.”

—  Voltaire

The critical review, or annals of literature, Volume XXVI http://books.google.es/books?id=aItKAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q&f=false, by A Society of Gentlemen (1768) p. 450

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