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Excerpt from The Martyr: A Drama in Three Acts
Of all the principles of human action. Religion is the strongest It is often, indeed, overcome by others and even by-those which may be considered as very weak antagonists; yet, on great emergencies it surmounts them all, and it is master of them all for general and continued operation. In every country and nation, under some. form or other, though often dark and distorted, it holds warfare with vice and immorality; either by destroying corrupted selfishness, or by rendering it tributary. And dear and intolerable to the feelings of nature are the tributes it will voluntarily offer, - fasting, scourging, wounds and humiliation; - the humiliation of all worldly distinction, when the light of reason as well as the robe of dignity are thrown aside.
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