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… and besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by-and-by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty, and paralysis to human thought.

A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR by Mark Twain
(Samuel L. Clemens)
Copyright © 1905, London, Chatto & Windus