We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories … - William Ernest Hocking

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[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

William Ernest Hocking

We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?

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For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

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Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

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