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The Impossibility of a Permanent Religious Constitution

It is absolutely impermissible to agree, even for a single lifetime, to a permanent religious constitution which no one might publicly question. This would virtually nullify a phase in man's upward progress and be detrimental to subsequent generations. But something which a people may not even impose upon itself, can still less be imposed upon it by a monarch. So long as he sees to it that all true or imagined improvements are compatible with the civil order, he can otherwise leave his subjects to do whatever they find necessary for their salvation - none of his business. It indeed detracts from his majesty, if he interferes in these affairs, by subjecting the writings in which his subjects attempt to clarify their

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