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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph Cudworth

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Ralph Cudworth
Age: 71 †
Born: 1617
Born: January 1
Died: 1688
Died: June 26
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