It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. To produce uniformity. No more than of face and stature. Introduce the bed of Procrustes then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. . . . But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same.