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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Address, July 17, 1838, delivered before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge. “The Divinity School Address,” repr. in The Portable Emerson, ed. Carl Bode (1946, repr. 1981).

Categories: Essayist, Philosopher, Religion, Society, Worship

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