. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY upon the acquisition of true Knowledge,and perpetually interferes to dwarf the in-tellect and to destroy the growth of educa-tion. That the Popes for the first fifteenhundred years of Christendom, and fromthence also until this moment did, and havedone, all they could, to keep the tvorld in astate of barbarism, is noiv a truism so uni-versally acknowledged, and so loudly pro-claimed by Protestants writers, that noman would condescend to argue it; for todo so would imply that the matter mightbe disputed, or that our senses
. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY upon the acquisition of true Knowledge,and perpetually interferes to dwarf the in-tellect and to destroy the growth of educa-tion. That the Popes for the first fifteenhundred years of Christendom, and fromthence also until this moment did, and havedone, all they could, to keep the tvorld in astate of barbarism, is noiv a truism so uni-versally acknowledged, and so loudly pro-claimed by Protestants writers, that noman would condescend to argue it; for todo so would imply that the matter mightbe disputed, or that our senses had de-ceived us as to the patent facts. Thatgreat scholars arose in those dark agesproves nothing; for those men were not thechildren of the papacy, but were the dis-ciples and missionaries of knowledge, andthey were as entirely independent of thatodious superstition as if it had no exist-ence. The Papal church, supreme inEurope, was based on ignorance, and couldonly be maintained while ignorance con-tinued. The whole efforts of the clergy,the
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