Sentences with phrase «deception upon hearts»

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Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

Rousseau's self - deception is immense: he believes that someone can have a claim upon his «heart» without infringing upon his «freedom.»