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Updated: May 8, 2025

But it is the blessed virtue of Ignorance and of non-perception that they inevitably-if only slowly and painfully DESTROY THEMSELVES. All experience serves to dissipate them. The world, as it is, carries' the doom of its own transformation in its bosom; and in proportion as that which is negative disappears the positive element must establish itself more and more.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning