The men and women of the world, who have caused nations to advance
and prosper, have never been, nor never will be Catholics, unless she
discards her present mode of procedure, and this she will never do.
Whenever you tear the cloak of superstition and idolatry from the
form of Catholicism, you have naught left but the skeleton of
abominations.

The men of science and of reason, all over the world, boldly accuse
the Roman Catholic Church of being the enemy of science, detesting it
and desiring to spread the mantle of ignorance over all those whom
she controls.

The Church seems not to understand that everything finds its source
at the fountain of reason, as all things must originate from God,
and most assuredly the Supreme Being is an intelligent, reasonable
and rational God. The Catholic Church must resist, as a matter of
life or death, the progress of modern civilization, or else go down
in disgrace, for civilization and reason is a nightmare and an
everlasting enemy to Catholicism, as "scientific thought" makes her
doctrines and dogmas stand out as abominations.

If the world is to depend upon the Romish Church for her
intellectuality, and for her philosophy, and for her scientific
resources, she will always be groping her way in darkness, as the
Popish church has never advanced one-hundredth part of an inch from
the trenches of ancient ignorance and superstitions, nor has she in
any material way been instrumental in advancing a single interest of
the masses which elevates, as her every cry and her combined efforts
have been to paralyze progress and scientific research, as she well
knows that to have the searchlight of reason turned upon her