I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actor spoke, nor the religion which they professed, — whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
“The Preacher,” lecture, Cambridge (5 May 1879)
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