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Behind the Bastards
It was mentioned as being influential to Charles Dederick, possibly due to its atheistic viewpoint, which contributed to his own later atheism and subsequent drinking problem.
The history of mankind is a history of more or less blind endeavors to conceive a common purpose in relation to which all men may live happily and to create and develop a common stock of knowledge whi...
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It was mentioned as being influential to Charles Dederick, possibly due to its atheistic viewpoint, which contributed to his own later atheism and subsequent drinking problem.
The history of mankind is a history of more or less blind endeavors to conceive a common purpose in relation to which all men may live happily and to create and develop a common stock of knowledge which may serve and illuminate that purpose.
after reading it, he quote, became a militant atheist almost overnight.