| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6841 |
| QUOTATION: | All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Berkeley (1685–1753), Irish bishop, philosopher. Alciphron, in “Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher,” advertisement, para. 3/3, p. 23, The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, eds. A. Luce and T. Jessop, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. (1948-1957). |
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