“Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.”

— Georg Brandes

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 26 (cf. Daybreak, § 11)

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Danish literature critic and scholar 1842–1927

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