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The twins politely expressed their obligations for the pleasant outing which had been afforded them; to which the judge bowed his thanks, and then said he would now go and arrange for the Free-thinkers' meeting, and would call for Count Luigi in the evening. "For you also, dear sir," he added hastily, turning to Angelo and bowing.
Allusion being made to Schlegel's History of Literature, and the severity with which he speaks of Helvetius, and the philosophers of his school, we began to discuss what harm the free-thinkers in philosophy had effected.
It's called 'His Mother's Heart, and it's about a young man in college who gets in with a lot of free-thinkers and boozers and everything, but in the end his mother's influence " Juanita Haydock broke in with a derisive, "Oh rats, Raymie! Can the mother's influence! I say let's give something with some class to it. I bet we could get the rights to 'The Girl from Kankakee, and that's a real show.
Images of the Virgin, religious banners, the blue-and-white of the Madonna's colours, suddenly canopied the crowd. "We want the Barnabites back!" sang out another voice. "Down with the free-thinkers!" yelled a hundred angry throats. A stone or two sped through the air and struck the sculptures of the porch.
Prayer, however, was a good thing, as keeping us in touch with the spiritual world. If he had prayed more he would have been higher in the spirit world. This, I may remark, seemed rather in conflict with his assertion that he had not suffered through being a free-thinker, and yet, of course, many men neglect prayer who are not free-thinkers. His death was painless.
There were audacious young free-thinkers, who adored nobody or nothing, except perhaps Robespierre and the Koran, and panted for the day when the pale name of priest should shrink and dwindle away before the indignation of an enlightened world. But the worst of all University Snobs are those unfortunates who go to rack and ruin from their desire to ape their betters.
The bishops, as in duty bound, protested; and, being unanimously supported by the people, the attack of Chilian free-thinkers, on public peace and liberty, was abandoned. The trouble in Hayti arose more from a desire, on the part of the negroes, to have native priests than any real hostility to religion. The government ignorantly assumed the right to appoint the chief administrators of the Church.
The Deacon could quote scripture in a manner which put Biblical professors to the blush, and every principle of his creed so bristled with texts, confirmatory, sustentive and aggressive, that doubters were rebuked and free-thinkers were speedily reduced to speechless humility or rage.
This might not be one in the end but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were 'dolled' up seemed to her as near a sin as one could find in an age which had abolished them.
The reputation of the Church suffered, perhaps, still more from the attacks of the free-livers than from those of the free-thinkers.
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