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 | | Catholicism, to constitute and maintain the unity necessary to its social distinction, was forced to put a check at once on the free, individual, inevitably discordant, expression of the religious spirit, by erecting into the first duty of a Christian, the most absolute Faith. |
 | | Catholicism, appropriating the unanimous opinion of antecedent philosophers, rightly regarded individual virtues as the basis of all others, inasmuch as they afford the most natural and most decisive exercise of that ascendancy of reason over passion, on which all moral perfection depends. |
 | | Catholicism, while it consecrated in the most solemn manner the authority of parents, abolished totally the almost absolute despotism which it possessed among the ancients, and which not unfrequently manifested itself in the murder or desertion of in ants at their birth. |
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