Omniana/Volume 1/Toleration

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3229411Omniana/Volume 1 — Toleration1812Samuel Taylor Coleridge

102. Toleration.

The state, with respect to the different sects of Religion under its protection, should resemble a well-drawn portrait. Let there be half a score individuals looking up at it, every one sees its eyes and its benignant smile directed toward himself.

The framer of preventive laws, no less than private tutors and schoolmasters, should remember, that the readiest way to make either mind or body grow awry, is by lacing it too tight.