"Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat."
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"The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know."
"Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God."
"That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen."
"If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market."
"What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong."
"'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd."
"I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself."
"It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable."