"Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Change as articulated by Morris Raphael Cohen. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Change provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

About Morris Raphael Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen was a Russian-born American judicial philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union coalesced into the "objective relativism" fermenting at Columbia University before and during the early twentieth-century interwar period. He was father to Felix S. Cohen and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield.

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