Elihu Palmer Quotes

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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Elihu Palmer

Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.

Elihu Palmer