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Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers Quotes: Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
         

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.


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