John Stuart Mill Quote

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.


Three Essays on Religion (ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1874)


If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the...

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the...

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the...

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the...