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It's from Alan Watts.

The West has unfortunately not yet awakened to the fact
that our appeal to idealism and reason and other desirable
virtues, delivered with so much enthusiasm, is mere sound
and fury. It is a puff of wind swept away in the storm of
religious faith, however twisted this faith may appear to us.
We are faced, not with a situation that can be overcome by
rational or moral arguments, but with an unleashing of emo-
tional forces and ideas engendered by the spirit of the times,
and these, as we know from experience, are not much influ-
enced by rational reflection and still less by moral exhort-
ation.

-Jung. The Undiscovered Self