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Quote of the Day - October 4, 2010

by FSM: QUOTE OF THE DAY, THE EDITOR October 4, 2010
 
“There is nothing in itself more excellent than religion, but to raise quarrels and disputes about it, is to dishonour it. It is marvellous to me, that that which was designed to make us happy in another world, should, by its divisions make us most miserable in this; and that what was ordained for the saving of men’s souls should be perverted to taking away of their lives. I do not like a creed, that, like Draco’s laws, is writ in blood.
 
 I never was disaffected  to any that were of a different persuasion from me in point of religion, but wished them liberty of conscience, so far as they made a conscience of that liberty; and I never understood the logic of confirming a wavering faith by sword and pistol.”
 
– William de Britaine, 1680. This quote originally appeared in “Human Prudence” 1680 (p 18 of this online edition), reproduced in “The Counsels of William de Britaine,” (page 8).
 
 
Notes
 
The exact identity of William de Britaine is unknown, though in the introduction to the 1897 edition of “Counsels,” editor Herbert H. Sturmer maintains that he was from South Wales and may possibly be John Davies of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire (1625 – 1693).
 
The title “De Britaine” is an allusion to Wales, whose language is called by its practitioners “Brythoneg” and where the term “Brython” means a “Briton” or a “Welshman.” “Brythonic” is a term used by folklorists and literary theorists to describe aspects of early Celtic/indigenous culture in Britain.
 

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