 | George Sydney Smythe - 1844 - 412 pagina’s
...book-maker or system-monger. It is a political and popular Institution. Atheism belongs to Aristocracies. The idea of a Great Being, who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime — that is the idea of the people. It is the poor who are at this moment... | |
 | Frederica Rowan - 1845 - 386 pagina’s
...Revolution should appear atheistical, and because, as he expressed himself, " Atheism is aristocratical. The idea of a Great Being, who watches over oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumphant crime, is quite popular. The people, those that are unhappy, applaud me ; if there be any who blame... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 994 pagina’s
...not a maker of books and of systems ; it is a political and popular body. Atheism is ariitocratie. The idea of a great Being, who watches over oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumpliant guilt, is j perfectly in accordance with popular notions. The People and the unfortunate... | |
 | George Long - 1850 - 704 pagina’s
...speaking as an individual, as a philosopher with a system, but as a representative of the people : atheism is aristocratic ; the idea of a Great Being,...over oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumphant crime, is altogether popular. (Loud applause.) — Since I was at - college, I have been but an] indifferent... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1859 - 454 pagina’s
...insane. The National Convention abhors such a system. It is a political body^ not a maker of creeds. Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great Being...popular. The people, the unfortunate, applaud me. If God did not exist, it would behoove man to invent him." One of the last evenings in the month of January,... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 pagina’s
...perhaps, have regarded Robespierre with a kindlier eye if he had not been the author of the dictum : " Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a Great Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people." Mr. Morley's admiration for Burke... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1888 - 800 pagina’s
...would stop at Deism. He did not believe that a state could be founded on Atheism. " Atheism," said he, "is aristocratic. The idea of a great being who watches...oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumphant guilt, is and always will be popular. The people, the unfortunate, will ever applaud it ; it will never find... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1889 - 858 pagina’s
...would stop at deism. He did not believe that a state could be founded on atheism. "Atheism," said he, "is aristocratic. The idea of a great being who watches...oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumphant guilt, is and always will be popular. If God did not exist, it would behoove man to invent him." Accordingly... | |
 | 1889 - 686 pagina’s
...usurped the temples. But towards the end of the year Robespierre had made his famous declaration, " Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people." Dunton, too, has said in his usual... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1901 - 944 pagina’s
...stop at Deism. He did not believe that a state could be founded on Atheism. " Atheism," said he, " is aristocratic. The idea of a great being who watches...oppressed innocence, and who punishes triumphant guilt, is and always will be popular. The people, the unfortunate, will ever applaud it ; it will never find... | |
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Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people. 
