![]() ![]() “Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. “.Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. ![]()
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