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  "text": "Twice again, therefore, Christianity had come in with the exact answer that I required. I had said, \"The ideal must be fixed,\" and the Church had answered, \"Mine is literally fixed, for it existed before anything else.\" I said secondly, \"It must be artistically combined, like a picture\"; and the Church answered, \"Mine is quite literally a picture, for I know who painted it.\" Then I went on to the third thing, which, as it seemed to me, was needed for an Utopia or goal of progress. And of all the three it is infinitely the hardest to express. Perhaps it might be put thus: that we need watchfulness even in Utopia, lest we fall from Utopia as we fell from Eden.",
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