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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK VI
35/97

He proved that, in the mouth of his adversary, toleration was fanatical and cruel.

"You have proposed to you violent remedies for the evils which anger can only envenom; it is a sentence of starvation which is demanded of you against our nonjuring brethren.

Simple religious errors should be strangers to the legislator.

The priests are not guilty--they are only led astray.
When the eye of the law falls on these errors of the conscience, it envenoms them.

The best means of curing them is not to see them.


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