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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