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“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”

Has Beens Certain Church Office Filled University Ill Connected Appropriate Portions Clergymen Professorship

Book:The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

Source: The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

“Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.”

Interest Church Atheism Positive Atheism Orthodox Liars Fraud Publish Pious Clergymen

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.”

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan