Excerpt from The Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs, or His Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: With His Own Engagement and Conduct Therein; Containing Also an Appendix and Postscript If these truths were sufficiently adverted to; if it were considered how much mankind have been embittered and toasted, by the translation of power from one religious party to another, much peace, much humanity, would ensue; much ignorance would be obviated, and error (worse than ignorance) would vanish: the quarrels about religion would be mostly at an end. Instead of labouring our whole lives to detect the errors in the religion of others, we would seriously and usefully employ part of the time in the detection of those in our own an examination extremely wanted, but, I doubt, equally remote; if we wilfully acquiesce in the fallacious conviction, that our own containeth no heterodox articles such a conviction is really the more productive of evil, as it infers that infalli. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.