You have an ecclesiastical establishment, which, though the religion of the prince, and of most of the first class of landed proprietors, is not the religion of the major part of the inhabitants, and which consequently does not answer to them any one purpose of a religious establishment.
Burke critiques the disconnect between the established religion and the beliefs of the majority of the population.
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