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what is called the state, and which word means, 

 in England, the Boroughmongers. 



438. Away, then, my friends, with all cant 

 about the church, and the church being in dan 

 ger. If the church, that is to say, the tithes, 

 were completely abolished; if they, and all the 



. immense property of the church, were taken 

 and applied to public use, there would not be 

 a sermon or a prayer the less. Not only the 

 Bible but the very Prayer-book is in use here 

 as much as in England, and, I believe, a great 

 deal more. Why give the five millions a year 

 then, to Parsons and their wives and children? 

 Since the English, Irish, and Scotch, are so 

 good, so religious, and so moral here without 

 glebes and tithes ; why not use these glebes 

 and tithes for other purposes seeing they are 

 possessions which can legally be disposed of in 

 another manner? 



439. But, the fact is, that it is the circum 

 stance of the church being established by law 

 that makes it of little use as to real religion, 

 and as to morals, as far as they be connected 

 with religion. Because, as we shall presently 

 see, this establishment forces upon the people, 

 parsons whom they cannot respect, and whom 

 indeed, they must despise; and, it is easy to 

 conceive, that the moral precepts of those, whom 



