Religion


 * Religion**

// "There is hardly any human action, however particular it may be, that does not originate in some very general idea men have conceived of the Deity, of his relation to mankind, of the nature of their own souls, and of their duties to their fellow creatures. Nor can anything prevent these ideas from being the common spring from which all the rest emanates. //

// Men are therefore immeasurably interested in acquiring fixed ideas of God, of the soul, and of their general duties to their Creator and their fellow men; for doubt on these first principles would abandon all their actions to chance and would condemn them in some way to disorder and impotence." //** -Alexis De Tocqueville **

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 * The Negative Affect Religion has on People**

But when religion clings to the interests of this world, it becomes almost as fragile a thing as the powers of the earth.” (p. 361, de Tocqueville/Reeve, 1850)



**Positive Affects of Religion**



// "This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously." // reflection2.
 * NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE **