THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION
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for a long period the spiritual were also the temporal lords—to keep them in fear, subjection and slavery."
The Martian being an impartial observer examined what had been done by Christianity for the intellectual and material advancement of humanity during her long reign, and what had been done by science and purely secular knowledge in its brief period of activity, the period when science and secular knowledge had partially liberated themselves from ecclesiastical domination. He came to the conclusion that in instituting a comparison he had established a contrast.
