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Paradise of Fools
The Hindus, Mahometans, Scandinavians, and Roman Catholics have
devised a place between Paradise and “Purgatory” to get rid of a
theological difficulty. If there is no sin without intention, then
infants and idiots cannot commit sin, and if they die cannot be
consigned to the purgatory of evil-doers; but, not being believers or
good-doers, they cannot be placed with the saints. The Roman Catholics
place them in the Paradise of Infants and the Paradise of Fools.
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