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Voltaire1694–1778

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Voltaire on religion

“Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition,” Treatise on Toleration (1763)

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