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of the Moslem faith pay much regard ( when they interfere with her despotic projects ) to the principles of the Koran , whose doctrines he at other times propagates by fire and sword ? Did the Koman Church fill Europe with civil ware , aoai ? chy and persecution , to promote the interests of religion or the policy of the successors of St .
Peter ? Does the orthodox clerk of the present day bawl loudest in support of true religion , or our venerable constitution " in Church and State" ? What encouragement is there , then , to court for religion the fostering care of civil authority ? United to tibia temporal power in arbitrary governments .
especially in the East * we have seen that she only gives a keener edge to the weapons of tyranny and pitiless despotism ;—united to the milder institutions of Europe , experience still shews her invariably , without a single exception , prostituted to the interests of faction and corruption .
The fond speculator may , indeed , in the abstractions of a benevolent mind , picture to himself some fair Utopia , under rulers who might be content to take for their sole object the interest of the governed ; over whom prejudice and interest might have no sway ; who
might have wisdom , or * rather good fortune , enough to select a system , of which all should admit the excellency said divine authority ; who might have virtue enough to refrain from prostituting their authority to an arbitrary dominion over the rights of conscience . But let history be heard as to the
probability of such a concurrence of circumstances on either side ; let morals tell how far it is likely men should continue in the paths of moderation and virtue while surrounded by increased temptations to deviate from them . Even to those , then , who are not
persuaded that religion in all cases disdains this alliance , as the espousal of interests which are permanent and eternal , to institutions variable from a thousand fleeting circumstances , we may submit tftat her voice , as well as that t » f worldly policy , prompts tft , at
anv rate , to preserve her independent , till the seductive attractions of autho rity are somewhat diroinidUed , and till we see ground for believing that the majority of the governments of the worn are , in practice , ( when entraeted with power which they cam in any way abuse , ) something better than expe-
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dients for gratifying the ambition , cruelty and bigotry of some or the still more despicable avarice of others . * EX .
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356 The Nonconformist . No . XVIIL
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gleanings $ on , selections A and REFLECTIONS MAtTB IN COURSE OF CBXEKAt , KEApIWO . . " ' ¦ No . CCCLXVIL Table of the C #$ t of National Qtory Taxes upon every article which eaters into jhe mouth , of covert the back , or is placed under the foow
taxes upon every tiling which it is pleasant to see , hear , feel , smell or taste—taxes upon warmth , light and locomotion—taxes on every thing on earth , and the Waters under tfee earth —on every thing that comes from at home
abroad or 13 jg ^ own —taxes on the iw material—taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man—taxes on the sauce which pampers num ' s appetite , and the drug that restores him to healthon the ermine which decorates the
judge , and the rope which hangs the criminal—on the poor man ' s salt , and the rich man ' s spice—on the brass nails of the coffin , and the ribands of the bride—at bed or board , couchant or levant , yve must pay . The
schoolboy whips his taxed top—the beardless youth manages his taxed horse , with a taxed bridle , on a taxed road - and the d y ing Englishman pouring his medicine , which has paid 7 per cent , into a spoou that has paid 15 per
centflings himself back upon hia chintz-bed which has paid 22 per cent—makes his will on an eight pound stamp , and expires in the arms of fxx apothecary who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege Of putting him to death . Iffa wjiole property » then immedfet ^ y tJ ^ xed from % to 10 per cent . Besides j&e K ^ Wte * ^ arj | e fees are deawuKteJ for burying 10 ft up the chancel i } m w * m > § m . f # ^ down to posterity on taxM wwrblej »» d he is then gathered to has fn 4 Jier » ' , ^ to pe taxed no more . Ed . Rev . XXXIIL 77 , 78 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/32/
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