Ralph Cudworth Quote

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.


The works...: containing the true intellectual system of the universe, sermons, & c (ed. 1829)


Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;...

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;...

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;...

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;...