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That most people are only in the first degree of religion is not their fault; they cannot help it and are not to be blamed. They are simply what their past has made them. If others have risen to the higher degrees of mysticism or philosophy it is because they have a longer fuller past behind them. Young plants are not to be reproached because they are not old trees.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 72