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Excerpt from Sketches of Modern Irreligion and Infidelity: With Some Results of Late Extensive Travels on the Continent
IT is a singular phenomenon that whilst the excellence of the Christian morality is ad mitted by the Infidel and the Rationalist the dogma and the faith out of which this morality springs, is hated and calumniated and yet the wonder remains to be explained how so pure a morality should have its source in a faith so hateful to the infidel. The morality that proceeds from free thought in religion and free intelligence has con vulsed Europe, and has not made it happy. But that Modern Infidelity is not altogether without excuse in its great revolt against a corrupt Christianity, it has been the oh ject of the following pages to show. These Essays are in part the result of observations.
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