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Some upper-rank members of the Catholic hierarchy who privately believed but publicly rejected the tenet of reincarnation gave me, as the principal objection among a few others, that it allowed too long a time for people either to work for salvation or receive punishment for sins.
-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 195