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Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Hanya dengan desas-desus (dari mulut ke mulut y...

"Hanya dengan desas-desus (dari mulut ke mulut yang diturunkan dari generasi ke generasi) bahwa seluruh bangsa memuja Tuhan nenek moyang mereka dan para pendeta mereka: otoritas, kepercayaan, ketundukan, dan kebiasaan bersama mereka menggantikan keyakinan atau bukti: mereka sujud dan berdoa, karena ayah mereka mengajar mereka untuk sujud dan berdoa: tetapi mengapa ayah mereka berlutut?"

--- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Versi Bahasa Inggris

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?