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Someone has rightly said that every civilization is built around the core of a religion. One can just as truly say that conversation cannot soar to its proper heights if it consciously by-passes man's supreme problem and interest — how to get to heaven. Great conversation, even if it is not directly about religion, must flutter about in the light of it. When Milton was looking for a theme for his masterpiece, he concluded that the most vital topic in the world was the ways of God to man, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Man's highest form of public speaking is the sermon. De Quincey called "The weekly sermons of Christendom . . . that vast pulpit literature." So man's most vital conversation is talk about religion. |
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