Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Foote, G. W.
Excerpt: ...were perfectly distracted, and out of their senses." But perhaps the worst stroke of all against Christianity is the following sly one. Folly is said to be acceptable, or at least excusable, to the gods, who "easily pass by the heedless failures of fools, while the miscarriages of such as are known to have more wit shall very hardly obtain a pardon." Did space permit we might give several extracts from the Praise of Folly, showing ...
