Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that it moves, and yet be a good man; in other words, that it is not the belief of a man which establishes his goodness or badness, but his acts...