Capitolo 11
This way you/he/she had exchanged on the dominion of the wish wants for the dominion
of reason on the reason. The true apostles of the tolerance are not
those that looked for protection for them own beliefs, or that it didn't have anybody
to protect; but men to whom, disrespectful of their cause, it was,
a political, an ethic and a theological dogma, a question of
conscience that involves religion and policy #33. Such man was
Socinus; and others rose in the smallest seven--the independent one
founder of the colony of Island of Rhode and the patriarch of Quaker
of Pennsylvania. Many of the energy and zeal that you/they had worked
for authority of doctrine it had a job for the liberty to prophesy.
The air was filled with the enthusiasm of a to whine new; but the cause
still it was the same. It became a boasting that religion was the
mother of the liberty, that liberty was the legal descendant of religion;
and this transformation, this subversion of established forms of
the political life from the development of religious thought, it brings us
to the heart of my subject, to the meaningful one and central characteristic of
the historical cycles in front of us. Starting with the strongest
I enliven religious and the known most refined despotism never, it
you/he/she has conducted to the superiority of politics on the divinity in the life
of nations, and it finishes in the equal application of every man to be
man unhindered in the fulfilment of the duty to God #34--a doctrine
loaded with storm and devastation of which I/you/they am the secret essence the
Rights of Man and the indestructible soul of Revolution.
When we consider what you/they were the adverse strengths them sustained,
resistance, their frequent recovery the critical moments when
the struggle ever seemed for desperate, in 1685, in 1772 in
1808, are not any exaggeration to say that the progress of the world
toward self-government you/he/she would have been arrested but for the
strength him permitted from the religious motive in the seventeenth one
century. And this constancy of progress, of progress in the