nfidels in religion."--Let. 67.

"Secluded from the world, attached from his
infancy to one set of persons and one set of
ideas, he can neither open his heart to new
connections nor his mind to better information. A
character of this sort is the soil fittest to
produce that obstinate bigotry in politics and
religion which begins with a meritorious
sacrifice of the understanding and finally
conducts the monarch and the martyr to the
block."--Let. 39.

Junius is here speaking of the king, who with a narrow understanding
would naturally have a narrow system of politics and religion. But
again:

_Paine._

"We persecute no man, neither will we abet in the
persecution of any man for religion's
sake."--Crisis, iii.

_Junius._

"The fundamental principles of Christianity may
still be preserved though every zealous sectary
adheres to his own exclusive doctrine, and pious
ecclesiastics make it part of their religion to
persecute one another."--Let. 58.

"The writer of this is one of those few who never
dishonors religion, either by ridiculing or
caviling at any denominations whatsoever. To God
and not to man are all men accountable on the
score of religion."--Epistle to the Quakers.

"If I thought Junius capable of uttering a
disrespectful word of the religion of his country
I should be the first to renounce and give him up
to the public contempt and indignation."--Let. 54.

Above it is Philo Junius who is speaking; but the reader will remember
he is the real Junius. He had been attacked for his impiety, and he puts
Philo Junius forward to defend himself. The reader can not fail to
notice the same hand in the last parallel. Paine says: "The _writer_ of
this is one of _those few_ who never dishonors religion" by abusing the
professors of it. And he never did. Junius ridiculed the ceremonial in
the Catholic Church which denies the cup to the laity; and of this he
says: "It is, in this country, as fair an object of ridicule as
_transubstantiation_, or any other part of Lord Peter's History in the
Tale of the Tub." This reminds me of what Paine says of popery and
Peter: "A man hath as good