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Prisoner for Blasphemy

CHAPTER V
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And what presumption on the part of these pigmies to undertake a defence of deity! Surely Omnipotence is as _able_ to punish as Omniscience knows _when_ to punish.

The theologians who, as Matthew Arnold says, talk familiarly of God, as though he were a man living in the next street, are modest in comparison with his self-elected body-guard.
Would it not be better for these presumptuous mortals to mind their own business?
It will be time enough for them to supervise their neighbors when they have reformed themselves.

With all their pretensions to superior piety and virtue, they are notoriously the greatest ring of public thieves in the world, and they are at present lavishly expending trust-monies in a desperate endeavor to justify their turpitude and prolong their plunder.
According to our summons, Mr.Ramsey, Mr.Kemp, and I appeared at the Mansion House on Friday, February 2, 1883.

The Justice Room was thronged long before the Lord Mayor took his seat on the Bench, and all the approaches were crowded by anxious sympathisers.

All the evidence was of a purely formal character.


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