When you remember the descriptions applied by Mr William Sunday to those who do not accept Christianity, you cannot, I think, avoid a sense that there is a religious blasphemy for which, at least from the angle of good manners, nothing whatever can be said.
Laski critiques the derogatory language used by some religious figures towards non-Christians.
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But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
But if the Church is not a supernatural institution, what is its nature?
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
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