"It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution."

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In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

— Claude Bernard