Excerpt from Ingersoll AnsweredDo you really object to this religious instinct? Do you really think it monstrous and wicked? Do you [really think it interferes with liberty, and causes unhappiness? I grant you that men have made outrageous uses of it that they have built upon it churches which deserve all the indigna-7 tion that your generous heart can feel and your powerful mind express. But let us distinguish between the thing itself and'the abuse of it: between a fact of nature and the use made of it by man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.