XXXII.--IT IS A PREJUDICE WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED FROM FATHER TO CHILDREN.

Religion is handed down from fathers to children as the property of a

family with the burdens. Very few people in the world would have a God

if care had not been taken to give them one. Each one receives from his

parents and his instructors the God which they themselves have received

from theirs; only, according to his own temperament, each one arranges,

modifies, and paints Him agreeably to his taste.

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