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The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Northrop Frye
Mind, Atheism, Taught
Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.475, University of Toronto Press

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye
Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism
Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Northrop Frye
Religion, Atheism, Infinity
Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.277, Dundurn

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