Excerpt from An Introduction to the Defence of Abner Kneeland, Charged With Blasphemy: Before the Municipal Court, in Boston, Mass at the January Term, in 1894
This argument] object to, since it proves too much. Philo sophical, political, moral and theological errors have, for eggs, prevailed throughout the most civilized parts of the world. S follies of witchcraft, magic and astrology, have received full credence among people the most dissimilar, and in nations that have had no intercourse with each other.
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Excerpt from An Introduction to the Defence of Abner Kneeland, Charged With Blasphemy: Before the Municipal Court, in Boston, Mass at the January Term, in 1894
This argument] object to, since it proves too much. Philo sophical, political, moral and theological errors have, for eggs, prevailed throughout the most civilized parts of the world. S follies of witchcraft, magic and astrology, have received full credence among people the most dissimilar, and in nations that have had no intercourse with each other.
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This 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.
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