“If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.”

—  John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 62

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