Perhaps you may succeed in the same manner with all the other tenets of doctrine and usages of discipline amongst the Catholics; but what security have you, that, in the temper and on the principles on which they have made this change, they will stop at the exact sticking-places you have marked in your articles?
Burke questions the security of changes made to religious tenets, suggesting they may not hold.
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The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
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