Note 255 — Chapter XXIV · The Future of Religion.

Whenever a bourgeois is in want of arguments to justify what is injustfiable, it is a thousand to one that he will make his appeal to “morality.” In the spring of 1894, at a meeting of the Evangelical Synod, a “liberal” member of the Berlin Court of Justice even declared it to be “moral” that only taxpayers should have a vote at church meetings.