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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Whence has come thy lasting power.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky