“It is a want of feeling to talk of priests and bells while so many infants are perishing in the hospitals, and aged and infirm poor in the streets, from the want of necessaries.”

—  Thomas Paine

Worship and Church Bells http://thomaspaine.org/essays/french-revolution/worship-and-church-bells.html (1797) <br class="br">1790s

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