The Depravity of the Divine

The author of nature ties together all mortals in an immense chain of love and felicity. Evil belongs to depraved man who oppresses or allows his like to be oppressed. Kings always conspire to assassinate humanity. If they can no longer disfigure the divinity by superstition so as to associate it to their misdeeds, they strive to banish him from earth order to reign there alone with crime. People fear no more their sacrilegious plots. They can no more tear the world from the breast of its author than the remorse from their own hearts. Unfortunates, raise up your beaten down heads. You can still raise your eyes to heaven with impunity.