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Bad as the state of religion was at the beginning of the Revolution, it was worse after that struggle had ended.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Bad as the state of religion was at the beginning of the Revolution, it was worse after that struggle had ended.”
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Beveridge comments on the decline of religion in Virginia following the Revolutionary War.
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