Superstition Unveiled

Excerpt

Religion has an important bearing on all the relations and conditions of life.  The connexion between religious faith and political practice is, in truth, far closer than is generally thought.  Public opinion has not yet ripened into a knowledge that religious error is the intangible but real substratum of all political injustice.  Though the ‘Schoolmaster’ has done much, there still remain among us, many honest and energetic assertors of ‘the rights of man,’ who have to learn that a people in the fetters of superstition cannot, secure political freedom.  These reformers admit the vast influence of Mohammedanism on the politics of Constantinople, and yet persist in acting as if Christianity had little or nothing to do with the politics of England.