When men are driven from any of those principles on which they have received religion, without embracing with the same assurance and cordiality some other system, a dreadful void is left in their minds, and a terrible shook is given to their morals.
Burke warns of the moral and psychological void left when individuals abandon their religious principles without adopting new ones.
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