It may use its own ceremonies, but it cannot impose them on the unwilling; and since persecution is alien from the spirit of Christ, exclusion from membership must be the limit of ecclesiastical disciplinary power.
Laski argues that while the Church can have ceremonies, it cannot impose them on non-members.
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Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
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