I respect the Catholic hierarchy and the Presbyterian republic; but I know that the hope or the fear of establishing either of them is, in these kingdoms, equally chimerical, even if I preferred one or the other of them to the Establishment, which certainly I do not.
Burke expresses his respect for different religious structures while acknowledging the impracticality of establishing them in his context.
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