Excerpt from Sketches of Modern Irreligion and Infidelity: With Some Results of Late Extensive Travels on the ContinentIT is a singular phenomenon that whilst the excellence of the Christian morality is ad mitted by the Infidel and the Rationalist the dogma and the faith out of which this morality springs, is hated and calumniated and yet the wonder remains to be explained how so pure a morality should have its source in a faith so hateful to the infidel. The morality that proceeds from free thought in religion and free intelligence has con vulsed Europe, and has not made it happy. But that Modern Infidelity is not altogether without excuse in its great revolt against a corrupt Christianity, it has been the oh ject of the following pages to show. These Essays are in part the result of observations.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.