Excerpt from Religion and the Reign of Terror: Or, the Church During the French Revolution<br><br>The Special interest of the French Revolution for re publicans lies in the nature of the interests that were at stake. It was, on the one hand, a struggle of liberty against absolutism, free thought against Spiritual despo tism; and, on the other, of Christianity against a godless philosophy; it was, therefore, a struggle in the interest of the very principles which lie at the basis of American greatness. But the great Revolution made shipwreck the name of liberty was tarnished by the most atrocious crimes Christianity seemed for a moment to have gone down in a night of blood and. Delirium, amid the tri umphant orgies of a foul-mouthed Atheism; and, finally.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.