Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

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.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.