He will multiply _tabooed_ questions; his morality will be as flexible as seasons, men, and circumstances.

He will seek to impose on humanity by gesticulations and studied attitudes; an hundred times a day he will mumble over words whose sense has evaporated and which have become empty conventionalities.

He will traffic in holy things, but just enough not to shake faith in their sanctity, and he will take care that the more intelligent the people are, the less open shall the traffic be.
He will take part in the intrigues of the world, and he will always side with the powerful, on the simple condition that they side with him.
In a word, it will be easy to see in all his actions that he does not desire to advance religion by the clergy, but the clergy by religion, and as so many efforts indicate an object, and as this object, according to the hypothesis, can be only power and wealth, the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.
It is very plain that a true religion can be abused as well as a false one.

The higher its authority the greater the fear that it may be severely tested.

But there is much difference in the results.