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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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