"The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government."

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It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)

— Marilynne Robinson