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Error as comfort.  You can say what you like: Christianity wanted to free men from the burden of the demands of morality by, as it supposed, showing a shorter way to perfection: just as some philosophers thought they could avoid wearisome and tedious dialectics and the collection of rigorously tested facts by pointing out a 'royal road to truth'. It was an error in each case  yet nonetheless a great comfort to the exhausted and despairing in the wilderness.