Reverence for Human Worth, earnest devout search for it and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it: this, I say, is the outcome and essence of all true “religions,” and was and ever will be.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Essay (1850-04-01), “Downing Street,” Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. 3
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