This, in the present condition of the world, would be the last corruption of the Church, the utter ruin of the clerical character, the most dangerous shock that the state ever received through a misunderstood arrangement of religion.
Burke warns that the popular election of clergy, in the current global climate, would lead to the ultimate corruption of the Church and a dangerous destabilization of the state.
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But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
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