War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Kill the king but spare the man.

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.