Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 24: July to December, 1876 Whig love of precedent, the Whig hatred for abstract theories, may consist with a Tory application. But the true Whig diflered from the Tory 111 adding to these views an invincible suspicion of parsons. 'lhe first Whig battles were fought against the Church as much as against the King. F rom the struggle with Sacheverel down to the struggle for Ca tholic emancipation, Toryism and High Church principles were associated against Whigs and Dissenters. By that kind of dumb instinct which outruns reason, the Whig had learnt that there was some occult bond of union between the claims of a priesthood and the claims of a mon archy. The old maxim, No bishop, no king, suggested the opposite princi ple, that you must keep down the clergy if you would limit the monarchy. The natural interpretation of this prejudice into political theory, is that the Church is extremely useful as an ally of the con stable, but possesses a most dangerous explosive power it' allowed to claim in dependent authority. In practice we must resist all claims of the Church to dictate to the State. In theory, we must deny the foundation upon' which such claims can alone be founded. Dogma tism must be pronounced to be funda mentally irrational. Nobody knows any thing about theology, or, what is the same thing, no two people agree. As they don't agree, they cannot.clai1n to impose their beliefs upon others. 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.