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The undeveloped mentality may be allowed to take the Book of Genesis as historical fact, in the same way and for the same reasons that children may be allowed to take any fairy tale as fact. But the developed mentality ought to know better, ought to take Genesis as an allegory and its scenes, personages, and events as symbolical.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 2 : Organization, Content of Religion > # 126