They sought a home in a fresh wilderness, where they might be undisturbed by superior human authority; they had no Doctrinarian notions of equality, nor of the inequality which is the only possible condition of liberty; the idea of toleration was not born in their age; they did not project a republic; they established a theocracy, a church which assumed all the functions of a state, recognizing one Supreme Power, whose will in human conduct they were to interpret.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner
The great doctrine of the Christian era-the brotherhood of man and the duty of the strong to the weak-is in sharp contrast with this Doctrinarian notion of equality.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner