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Where religions have failed it is through their institutionalism; where they have succeeded it is through whatever individualism still remained in them. Romantic illusions may keep these institutions alive, but the darkening gloom of our times shows that human welfare cannot be preserved by illusions.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 197