FANATICISM IN FRANCE.
Practically every persecution is heralded and accompanied by outbursts of what Edmund Burke terms "epidemical fanaticism.” "Of all things, said he, "wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any sort of resource.” The Gordon riots in England and' the Reign of'Terror in France furnish extreme cases in point.; . Others a-many there would be among the .godless refuse of some of the great ci--ties of France to-day,; and in the region of aggressive athiesm in excelsis, but for the more determined spirit that seems to animate Catholics, the tremendous power of modern law, and the terrible means of repression that the course of invention of lethal weapons has placed in its hands. There are not, however, wanting indications of what might befall if mob power had today the striking power tliat it had in, sav, 1782. —"New Zealand Tablet.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2494, 6 May 1909, Page 2
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158FANATICISM IN FRANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2494, 6 May 1909, Page 2
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