Elihu Palmer Professions : Author Born : 1764 Died : 1806 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Elihu Palmer Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. Elihu Palmer empires progress age The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of. Elihu Palmer obscurity common-sense religion Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven. Elihu Palmer religious christian men Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
