It might seem singular that Nancy-with her religious theory pieced together out of narrow social traditions, fragments of church doctrine imperfectly understood, and girlish reasonings on her small experience-should have arrived by herself at a way of thinking so nearly akin to that of many devout people, whose beliefs are held in the shape of a system quite remote from her knowledge-singular, if we did not know that human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system."
( George Eliot )
[ Silas Marner ]
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