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'Yes, of course, what others are there worth notice?'

'A few The superstition of the ordinary newspaper reader is just as

profound, and the tyranny of the majority may be just as injurious as

the superstition of a Spanish peasant, or the tyranny of the

Inquisition'

'Newspapers will not burn people as the priests did and would do

again if they had the power, and they do not insult us with fables

and a hell and a heaven'

'I maintain,' said Clara with eranted what a party leader or a newspaper

tells hiainst the ranted what the priest tells hih, as

you know, I am not a convert myself, I do lose a little patience when

I hear it preached as a gospel to every poor conceited creature who

goes to your Sunday evening atheist lecture, that he is to believe

nothing on one particular subject which his own precious intellect

cannot verify, and the nexthe finds it to be his duty to

sholesale anything you please to put into his mouth As to

the tyranny, the day , when the

erous than any ecclesiastical

establishment which ever existed'