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William Robertson Smith

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

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William Robertson Smith is pointing out that people usually understand religion as a private matter between a person and their God. He highlights that it is difficult for us to imagine a religion where the entire nation, organized as a group, acts together as one religious community.

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