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At some point down the line of being born by family into a particular religious persuasion, the first ancestor to have the courage--unless he was forced by ruling tyranny or bribed by social ambition--to become a convert must be applauded. He may have been mistaken, his mind weak enough to let itself be misguided, but he did have the faith that he was moving from an inferior religious form to a superior one.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 228