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Karl Marx

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Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.
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Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), Ch. X, p. 194

 
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