...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the only spirit that is awake, nor is it, perhaps, the most dangerous and fatal....

...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, nud by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the unly spirit that is awake, nor ¡s it,...

...the views of an infidel who wrote only to blaspheme. " The various modes of worship (says Mr. Gibbon) which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." Taking this very low and unworthy view of religion, we doubt if our legislators will ever find that...

...the Roman world, during the decline of the Empire ; and which, to adopt Gibbon's sarcastic epigram, "were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But the history of Popery and its baneful consequences in past ages, is profitable only so far as it...

...chapter with the remark, that " the various modes of worship that prevailed within its limits were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus, he continues, toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, buteven religious concord. Such was the...

...Gibbon, as existing in the later days of the Roman empire, when all systems of religion were regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the state as equally indifferent. It is scarcely necessary to say, that we regard such a scheme as alike...

...prevailed in the Roman world, weie all considered by the people as equally true; /by the philosophei as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally...toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, "regardless ali!(e of the homage due to God and to the law of the empire,...

...the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the...magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration j)roduced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was...

...the superstitious part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Itoman world were all considered by the people as equally...toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological...

...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all,' he remarks, ' considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of his religious belief; and hence in the fifteenth...