What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Religion, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2014, bk. 3, ch. 1. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

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