eers until
the one is reached who turns the crank, and the machine has nothing
to do one way or the other. This machine is paid for giving up
his liberty by having machines under him who have also given up
theirs. While somebody else turns his crank, he has the pleasure
of turning a crank belonging to somebody below him.

Of course, the Catholic Church is supposed to be the only perfect
institution on earth. All others are not only imperfect, but
unnecessary. All others have been made either by man, or by the
Devil, or by a partnership, and consequently cannot be depended
upon for the civilization of man.

The Catholic Church gets its power directly from God, and is the
only institution now in the world founded by God. There was never
any other, so far as I know, except polygamy and slavery and a
crude kind of monarchy, and they have been, for the most part,
abolished.

The Catholic Church must be true to itself. It must claim everything,
and get what it can. It alone is infallible. It alone has all
the wisdom of this world. It alone has the right to exist. All
other interests are secondary. To be a Catholic is of the first
importance. Human liberty is nothing. Wealth, position, food,
clothing, reputation, happiness--all these are less than worthless
compared with what the Catholic Church promises to the man who will
throw all these away.

A priest must preach what his bishop tells him. A bishop must
preach what his archbishop tells him. The pope must preach what
he says God tells him.

Dr. McGlynn cannot make a compromise with the Catholic Church. It
never compromises when it is in the majority.

I do not mean by this that the Catholic Church is worse than any
other. All are alike in this regard. Every sect, no matter how
insignificant; every church, no matter how powerful, asks precisely
the same thing from every member--that is to say, a surrender of
intellectual freedom. The Catholic Church wants the same as the
Baptist, the Presbyterian, and the Methodist--it wants the whole
earth. It is ambitious to be the one supreme power. It hopes to
see the world upon its knees, with all its tongues thrust out for
wafers. It has the arrogance of humility and the ferocity of
universal forgiveness. In this respect it resembles every other
sect. Every religion is a system of slavery.

Of course, the religionists say that they do not believe in
persecution; that they do not believe in burning and