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When that bilious critic and merciless crucifier of human foibles, Carlyle, himself a degenerate, wrote that nine-tenths of the world were fools, he was much nearer truth than most men think.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by Weir, James