A Letter to Lord Ellenborough Occasioned By the Sentence Which He Passed On Mr
A Letter to Lord Ellenborough Occasioned By the Sentence Which He Passed On Mr
Shelley Percy Bysshe
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If some deistical bigot in power (supposing such a character for the sake of illustration) should, in dark and l)arbarous ages, have enacted a statute making the jDrofession of Christianity criminal ; if you, my Lord, were a Christian bookseller and Mr. Eaton a judge, those arguments, which you consider adequate to justify yourself for the sentence which you have passed, must likewise suffice, in this supposi- tionary case, to justify Mr. Eaton in sentencing you to Newgate and the pillory for b...eing a Christian. Whence is any right derived but that which jiower confers for perse- cution 1 Do you think to convert Mr. Eaton to your religion by embittering his existence 1 You might force him by torture to profess your tenets, but he could not believe them, except you should make them credible, which, loerhaps exceeds your power. Do you think to please the God you worship by this exhibition of your zeaH If so, the Demon to whom some nations offer human hecatombs is less barbarous than the Deity of civilised society.
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