Optical System

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“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
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