THE INEQUALITY OF HUMAN RACES
times, given up one faith before being duly provided with another, it is impossible to claim that the ruin of nations follows from their irreligion.
I have now shown that fanaticism, luxury, and the corruption of morals have not necessarily any power of destruction, and that irreligion has no political reality at all; it remains to discuss the influence of bad government, which is well worth a chapter to itself.
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