An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to H
An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to H
William Thompson
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I The next and the last beneficial political effect, that we -, shall notice as necessarily attendant on obedience to the ' natural laws of distribution, is, that all religious asso- ciations would become voluntary. \ Who is bold enough to say, that any established system of religion in Europe, that is now supported by aid of the public force, would continue to be upheld in its present state of expenditure, if that support were withdrawn, and if the voluntary con- sent of all, the produce of wh...ose industry is now taken for its support, were rendered necessary for the payment? If it be said that no religion, neither the religion of Mahomet, of Confucius, or of Jesus, could support itself without attacks on security, by the forced abstrac- tion of wealth, to pay its priests, it is replied, that no Most conducive to Human Happiness. 17o religion ought to exist on such terms, inasmuch as no religion can confer advantages to be at all put in com- parison with the blessings of security : without them, the purest religion, the mildest, the most sublime morality, would be but vain sounds ; with them, whatever was lovely and true in religion would become the uncon- strained belief and practice of every happy and enlight- ened mind.
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