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Edmund Burke: But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.

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But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke notes a shift in the behavior of atheists, highlighting their increasing activism and turbulence.

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