Harold J. Laski: “What really was in question was the nature of the State's power over the Church.”

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.