Where man sets no value on that part of his mental and moral life which makes him superior to the brutes, brute life will be an object of worship and bestial sensuality will be the genius of the ritual.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Topic ritual genius
Date 1837
Language English
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Note Translated by J. Sibree
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