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"Ecclesiasticism ruins us!" exclaimed Quinet the Radical, who was with them:
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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Ecclesiasticism, the streets of Dublin were filled Sunday after Sunday for weeks with crowds of Irishmen, headed by priests, shouting for the
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Ecclesiasticism and Constitutionalism send us one way,
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903
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The great curse of Theology and Ecclesiasticism has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small -- Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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Ecclesiasticism, especially of the Ultramontane movement in Germany, against which he says Prince Bismarck began a struggle in 1872.
Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Oliver Lodge 1895
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Ecclesiasticism had corrupted genuine human life, and national sanity could not be restored except by
The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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It was only after the material had been prepared in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries by scholars of the various Church parties, and, above all, by excellent editions of the Fathers, [19] and after Pietism had exhibited the difference between Christianity and Ecclesiasticism, and had begun to treat the traditional confessional structure of doctrine with indifference, [20] that a critical investigation was entered on.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Ecclesiasticism and Christianity being hopelessly confused in his mind, he uses the terms interchangeably in an academic and polemic discussion to prove that the theory of the social contract must destroy all ecclesiastical assumption of supreme power in the state.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Ignorant Barbarians may be destructive on general principles, but fanatical Ecclesiasticism has ever been destructive of all light, knowledge and civilization, through insane hatred or pure "cussedness"!
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Neo-Platonist, endeavored to unite men of different cults and beliefs on the lines of the Great Work, precisely as the Philalethean Society is doing in New York to-day; but his movement was soon engulfed and lost sight of by the tide of Ecclesiasticism, or suppressed by the soldiers of
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