Excerpt from An Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution: In Connection With the Moral Nature of Man, the Principle of Analogy, and the Sacred Scriptures
If the master spirits who led in the reforma tion, in the sixteenth century, had yielded to the fear of giving offence to a church which was imbued with error and corruption, the moral darkness which characterized that age might have continued a protracted night; and the benign light, which has made such salutary advances, might have been excluded from the Christian world.
Whatever may be said to justify Galileo for abjuring the Copernican system, when his life was menaced, the same could not be urged in extenuation of the impropriety of withholding important truth from society, in times which are not disgraced with offices of inquisition.
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