Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... to fill the world with the fatal seeds of infidelity; and books of licentious tendency were profusely scattered through the nations. Printers and booksellers were artfully enlisted in the same cause; and funds were raised to indemnify them in suppressing evangelical publications; and in giving the readiest currency to their infidel productions. Reading societies too, were formed, to give the infidel publications the most fatal effect. And the direction of schools was extensively obtained by the leaders of this infidelity, who filled them with such instructers as they chose, who would be sure to guard against all pious instructions, to efface as far as possible all religious impressions from their members, and to introduce their skeptical sentiments as far as practicable. The following account of this impious system is from the pen of the celebrated president Dwight. He says, "They ultimately spread their design throughout a great part of Europe; and embarked in it individuals, at little distances, over almost the whole of that continent. Their adherents inserted themselves into every place, office, and employment, in which their agency might be efficacious, and which furnished an opportunity of spreading their corruptions. They were found in every literary institution, from the lowest school to the academy of sciences; and in every civil office, from that of the bailiff, to that of the monarch. They swarmed in the palace; they haunted the church. Wherever mischief was to be done, they were found; and wherever they were found, mischief was done. Of books, they controlled the publication, the character, and the sale. An immense number of books they formed; and an immense number they forged, prefixing to them the names of reputable writers, and sending them into th...
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