Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events

Nonfiction, History, European General
Cover of the book Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould, Jovian Press
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Author: Sabine Baring-Gould ISBN: 9781537824352
Publisher: Jovian Press Publication: December 3, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
ISBN: 9781537824352
Publisher: Jovian Press
Publication: December 3, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

We are a little surprised, and perhaps a little shocked, at the illiberality of the Swiss Government, in even such Protestant cantons as Geneva, Zurich, and Berne, in forbidding the performances on their ground of the "Salvation Army," and think that such conduct is not in accordance with Protestant liberty of judgment and democratic independence. But the experiences gone through in Switzerland as in Germany of the confusion and mischief sometimes wrought by fanaticism, we will not say justify, but in a measure explain, the objection the Government has to a recrudescence of religious mysticism in its more flagrant forms...

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We are a little surprised, and perhaps a little shocked, at the illiberality of the Swiss Government, in even such Protestant cantons as Geneva, Zurich, and Berne, in forbidding the performances on their ground of the "Salvation Army," and think that such conduct is not in accordance with Protestant liberty of judgment and democratic independence. But the experiences gone through in Switzerland as in Germany of the confusion and mischief sometimes wrought by fanaticism, we will not say justify, but in a measure explain, the objection the Government has to a recrudescence of religious mysticism in its more flagrant forms...

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