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Excerpt from The Article "Ecclesiastical Establishments," Taken From the Westminster Review, Number X, for April, 1826
Not only was all evidence of what they really were almost wholly obliterated, but their memory has been handed down to execration, by general accusations of the mast disgusting vices, and the most atrocious crimes. Nor was it till the era of the Reformation, that some enlightened Protestants, beginning to ask what evidence was afforded of these imputed atrocities, disgrace ful not only to professing Christians, but to human nature itself dis, covered to their infinite surprise, that there was no such, thing. That of the little we really know of the ancient heretics, almost every thing goes to the disproof of the horrid accusations transmitted by the orthodox clergy, and tends to show, that both morality and learning were at a higher pitch among the heretics than among their exterminating enemies.
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