No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve.

Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, “The Hero as Priest” (1841)

 
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