Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . casuist, not for a travelling observer of En-glish-speaking countries as they are. Mormonism comes un-der my observation as the religious and social system of themost successful of all pioneers of English civilization. Fromthis point of view it would be an immediate advantage to t^ieAvorld that they should be driven out once more into the wil-derness, again to found an England in Mexico, in Polynesia,or on Red River. It may be an immediate gain to civiliza-tion, but America herself was founded by schismati


Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . casuist, not for a travelling observer of En-glish-speaking countries as they are. Mormonism comes un-der my observation as the religious and social system of themost successful of all pioneers of English civilization. Fromthis point of view it would be an immediate advantage to t^ieAvorld that they should be driven out once more into the wil-derness, again to found an England in Mexico, in Polynesia,or on Red River. It may be an immediate gain to civiliza-tion, but America herself was founded by schismatics upon abasis of tolerance to all; and there^are still to be found Amer-icans who think it would be the severest blow that has beendealt to liberty since the St. Bartholomew, were she to lendher enormous power to systematic persecution at the cannonsmouth. The question of where to draw the line is one of Britain draws it at black faces, and would hardly tol-erate the existence among her white subjects in London ofsuch a sect as that of the Maharajas of Bombay. If you.


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