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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

The Scavenger's Daughter

The Scavenger's Daughter.

Imagine a pair of shears with handles, not only where they now arc, but at the points as well, and just above the pivot that unites the blades a circle of iron, In the upper handles the hands would be placed; in the lower, the feet; and through the iron ring, at the centre, the head of the victim would be forced, and in that position the man would be thrown upon the earth, and the strain upon the muscle would produce such agony that insanity took pity. And this was done to keep page 7 people from going to hell—to convince that man that he had made a mistake in his logic—and it was done, too, by Protestants—Protestants that persecuted to the extent of their power, and that is as much as Catholicism ever did. They would persecute now if they had the power. There is not a man in this vast audience who will say that the church should have temporal power. There is not one of you but what believes in the eternal divorce of church and state. Is it possible that the only people who are fit to go to heaven are the only people not tit to rule mankind?

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