Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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