“Dearest Emma,
Last night you said I was at war with God, but truly it is nothing so dramatic as a war, just a silent struggle with myself extended over a thousand afternoons. The loss of religious faith is a slow and fragile process, like the raising of continents. What can I say to you except that the process now seems complete?” —Charles Darwin in Creation (2009)
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman
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