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Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,'gratitude, love, and admiration.'but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.

John Calvin A Treatise on Relics

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