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So it is with a pietistical and puristical people—they will follow some stupid old bellwether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

He adopted the puristical formation from the first.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard