fanaticism

is an evil, but it is good that a people should be roused by any means from a state of utter torpor.

Fanaticism is an evil_, but it is not the greatest of evils. It is gooa that a people should be roused by any means from a state of utter torpor; - that their minds should be diverted from objects merely sensual to meditations, however erroneous, on the mysteries of the Fancy moral and intellectual world; and from interests which are immediately selfish to those which relate to the past, the future, and the remote.

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