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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this⁠—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli on religion

Speech to the Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108

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