West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · ¶74

“It is unnecessary to attempt a definition of religion; the content of the term is found in the history of the human race and is incapable of compression into a few words. Religious belief arises from a sense of the inadequacy of reason as a means of relating the individual to his fellowmen and to his universe.... [It] may justly be regarded as a response of the individual to an inward mentor, call it conscience or God, that is for many persons at the present time the equivalent of what has always been thought a religious impulse.” United States v. Kauten, 133 F. 2d 703, 708.

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U. S. Reports, volume 319, at 624 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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