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Authors > 

Campbell

,

Joseph

1904-1987

,
Freethinker
...on
Truth and Reason

The paramount concern of a popular religion cannot be, and never has been, “Truth,” but the maintenance of a certain type of society, the inculcation in the young and refreshment in the old of an approved “system of sentiments” upon which the local institutions and government can depend. 

The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology (7:6), p. 378

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