The Bible and Politics: Or, An Humble Plea for Equal, Perfect, Absolute Religious Freedom, and Against All Sectrianism in Our Public Schools, Volumen1,Tema 13H.H. Bancroft, 1859 - 146 páginas |
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... book not fit to be read ; " " the enemy of the Bible ; " " against God's most holy Word ; " " joined with all the enemies of the Bible in the land ; " a party in " a secta- rian and infidel association , which has for its sole 2.
... book not fit to be read ; " " the enemy of the Bible ; " " against God's most holy Word ; " " joined with all the enemies of the Bible in the land ; " a party in " a secta- rian and infidel association , which has for its sole 2.
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... land , are based upon the Bible and its teachings ? A high church func- tionary - a D. D . , - thundering forth his egotistical anathemas against the Bible as a school book ; pointing , as with a finger of scorn , at its pages , as ...
... land , are based upon the Bible and its teachings ? A high church func- tionary - a D. D . , - thundering forth his egotistical anathemas against the Bible as a school book ; pointing , as with a finger of scorn , at its pages , as ...
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... land and Ireland , it has been regarded as one of the deepest and most absorbing interest . And in but few , if in any of these countries has a great system of national education been finally adjusted , or settled on such a basis , as ...
... land and Ireland , it has been regarded as one of the deepest and most absorbing interest . And in but few , if in any of these countries has a great system of national education been finally adjusted , or settled on such a basis , as ...
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... land . I believe this method of education unnatural , unphilosophical , and impossible , and sincerely regret that any one entertains views so erroneous , and hesitate not to say , that if it were practicable to carry out such a system ...
... land . I believe this method of education unnatural , unphilosophical , and impossible , and sincerely regret that any one entertains views so erroneous , and hesitate not to say , that if it were practicable to carry out such a system ...
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... land , just as they are . And I answer again , that , while I do not profess to wield the shield of Ajax , so that I may defend all who sympathize with my views on this subject , still I insist that it is a narrow and unfair ...
... land , just as they are . And I answer again , that , while I do not profess to wield the shield of Ajax , so that I may defend all who sympathize with my views on this subject , still I insist that it is a narrow and unfair ...
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Página 99 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.
Página 56 - I further add that I never denied, that notwithstanding this liberty, the commander of this ship ought to command the ship's course, yea, and also command that justice, peace and sobriety, be kept and practiced, both among the seamen and all the passengers.
Página 56 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of Conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns...
Página 118 - State to all mankind; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety...
Página 42 - States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ; and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
Página 57 - The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of the state of California, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this state.
Página 68 - As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of...
Página 61 - But it cannot be shown from the principles of natural or revealed religion that, independent of positive law, temporal punishments ought to be inflicted for mere opinions with respect to particular modes of worship. Persecution for a sincere, though erroneous, conscience is not to be deduced from reason or the fitness of things. . . . Conscience is not controllable by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals.
Página 94 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
Página 100 - And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.