Note 18 — THE PEOPLE’S PALACE, &c. &c.
Reading edition
This beautiful episode has been quoted with admiration by some newspapers, which, if the truth wrapped up in it had been invested with the folds of modern religionism, would, doubtless, have described it as fanaticism. So much depends upon the shape and spirit in which religion is presented. May not some portion of the aversion set down to the thing sometimes result from the mode of its presentation?