Annie Besant quote: We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into ...

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

~ Annie Besant ~

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