Religion: Translated from the Second Edition with the Author's Sanction

Excerpt from Religion: Translated From the Second Edition With the Author's Sanction

Churchmen on the extreme left of the Catholic Movement desire by such a step to secure liberty for a State-ridden Church. Dis establishment now appears as inevitable the question only re mains - with which of these three parties the drafting of the measure will lie. The schemes of the Secularist, we feel confident, will no more commend themselves to the Englishman's sense of reverence than the schemes of the Political Nonconformist will commend themselves to his sense of justice. The Liberation Society has only to draft its bill in order to throw back for years a measure which can but provoke popular disgust.' For, as M. De Molinari sums up the matter, The necessary condition of religious progress is the separation of Church and State, efi'ected not in hostility to, but in favour of religion.

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