"There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living."

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Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant