"O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud."

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Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

— Roger Scruton