Cotton Mather Quote

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

Magnalia Christi Americana (The Ecclesiastical History of New England), s. 63 (1702). Mather, commenting on the spiritual condition of the colonies, cited an old saying in Latin: Religio peperit Divitias, et filia devoravit matrem.

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