The world's orators : comprising the great orations of the world's history, with introductory essays, biographical sketches and critical notes . m Sir Rob. f Peel. Iliyiii l!ii- pciii/tiiio- bv John u /, ;// ilie National PoiiraitCalleiy, ii. Robert Pe- IS a matter of inc vith the c it ly to promote the interests of iHuence on the human mind. I t the spirit and ^e our de- IS )i Lne (.^nris- iii ii! , a Vital difference. u of t^ and the religion of nnnr ijs. Between them onism. 1 do not consider rrence of the Jew with the Christian i!i ; the historical truths and divine or- v^vu oi : m
The world's orators : comprising the great orations of the world's history, with introductory essays, biographical sketches and critical notes . m Sir Rob. f Peel. Iliyiii l!ii- pciii/tiiio- bv John u /, ;// ilie National PoiiraitCalleiy, ii. Robert Pe- IS a matter of inc vith the c it ly to promote the interests of iHuence on the human mind. I t the spirit and ^e our de- IS )i Lne (.^nris- iii ii! , a Vital difference. u of t^ and the religion of nnnr ijs. Between them onism. 1 do not consider rrence of the Jew with the Christian i!i ; the historical truths and divine or- v^vu oi : moral precepts of the Old Testament n avail to r^ rences in respect ^ he vita^.iuon ui u; a le^ On the Disabilities of the Jews 183 we had authority to determine religious error anda commission to punish religious error, it might beour painful duty to punish the Jews. But we haveno such commission. If the Jews did commit aninexpiable crime nearly two thousand years ago,we have had no authority given to us—even ifwe could determine who were the descendants ofthe persons guilty of that crime—to visit the sinsof the fathers upon the children, not unto the thirdor fourth, but unto the three hundredth or fourhundredth generation. That awful power is notours. Vengeance is mine; 1 will repay, saiththe Lord. 1 cannot, therefore, admit the right of the legis-lature to inflict a penalty for mere religious consider a civil disability to partake of the natureof a penalty. I speak of religious error simply andabstractly. If you can certainly infer from thatreligious error dangerous political opinions, and ifyou have no other mode of guarding against thosepolitical opinions except
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