[VIII. RELIGIOUS TESTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS.]
Pursuit of Truth has three departments:—order of nature, ends of practice, and the supernatural.
Growth of Intolerance. How innovations became possible.
In early society, religion a part of the civil government.
Beginnings of toleration—dissentients from the State Church.
Evils attendant on Subscription:—the practice inherently fallacious.
Enforcement of creeds nugatory for the end in view.
Dogmatic uniformity only a part of the religious character: element of Feeling.
Recital of the general argument for religious liberty.