Sirs, I am quite sure that the King of England's forbears rightly and justly lost the conquered lands that I hold …

In all this I see nothing but the benevolence and long-mindedness of the Deity.

We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.

But not only have the priests tried to make the very term Atheism odious, as if it would destroy all of good and beautiful in nature, but some of the reformers, not having the moral courage to avow their own sentiments, wishing to be popular, fearing lest their reforms would be considered Infidel, (as all reforms assuredly are), shield themselves from the stigma, by joining in the tirade against Atheism, and associate it with everything that is vile, with the crime of slavery, the corrup­tions of the Church, and all the vices imaginable.