Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were to be extinguished as dangerous to religion; and when tyrants could proscribe the instructors of the people as enemies to their power. Opinions on Politics, Theology, &c - Page 206by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839Full view - About this book
| 1825 - 588 pages
...considerations of a political nature. The time, we rejoice to think, is past and gone, when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...extinguished as dangerous to religion ; and when tyrants, or their minions, could proscribe the instructors of the people, as enemies to their power. It is preposterous... | |
| Education - 1827 - 554 pages
...fear from enlightened minds and elevated morals. That ' the time is past and gone, when bigots could persuade mankind, that the lights of philosophy were...to religion ; and when tyrants could proscribe the instructers of the people as enemies to their power. It is preposterous to imagine, that the enlargement... | |
| William Russell - Education - 1828 - 910 pages
...fear from enlightened minds and elevated morals. That ' the time is past and gone, when bigots could persuade mankind, that the lights of philosophy were...the laws which regulate the universe, can dispose us to unbelief. To tyrants indeed, and to bad rulers, the progress of knowledge among the mass of mankind,... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...arising from considerations of a political nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...universe, can dispose to unbelief. It may be a cure for superstition — for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1832 - 284 pages
...one looks at a second time, is unfavourable to the acquisition of solid and permanent information. of philosophy were to be extinguished as dangerous...cure for superstition—for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has nothing to fear from the greatest expansion... | |
| 1833 - 498 pages
...arising from considerations of a political nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...universe, can dispose to unbelief. It may be a cure for superstition — for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 644 pages
...arising from considerations of a political nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...cure for superstition—for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has nothing to fear from the greatest expansion... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 642 pages
...arising from considerations of a political nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...universe, can dispose to unbelief. It may be a cure for superstition — for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Education - 1839 - 100 pages
...invigorating to the faculties, than exercise on moral things, " the least of which seem infinite." — Ed.] THE HUMAN MIND NO LONGER IN SHACKLES. "I rejoice to...to religion ; and when tyrants could proscribe the instructers of the people as enemies to their power. It is preposterous to imagine that the enlargement... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 630 pages
...arising from considerations of a political nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were...universe, can dispose to unbelief. It may be a cure for superstition — for intolerance" it will be the most certain cure; but a pure and true religion has... | |
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