Synopsis
Excerpt from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 of 15: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church
In his Review for July, 1840, he carried the democratic principles to their extreme logical conclu sions, and urged the abolition of Christianity; mean ing, of course, the only Christianity he was acquainted with, if, indeed, it be Christianity; denounced the penal code, as bearing with peculiar severity on the poor, and the expense to the oor in civil cases; and, accepting the doctrine of Loc e, Jefferson, Mirabeau, Portalis, Kent, and Blackstone, that the right to devise or bequeath property is based on statute.
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