Northrop Frye Quotes
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye
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Author Details:
Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
Canadian Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 14, 1912
Date of Death:
January 23, 1991
Nationality:
Canadian
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Related Authors:
George Edward Woodberry
Bell Hooks
Aleister Crowley
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M. H. Abrams
Margaret Fuller
William Hazlitt
Charles Lamb
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Quote Keywords:
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Culture,
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Essential,
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Idolatry,
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Present,
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Religion,
Replace,
Service,
Tendency,
Understanding,
Worship
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Culture,
Destroy,
Essential,
Idolatry,
Intellectual,
Object,
Present,
Recurrent,
Religion,
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Service,
Tendency,
Understanding,
Worship
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