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Excerpt from An Address on the Connection of Church and State: Delivered at Sion College on February 15, 1868
It may be useful, therefore, to examine how far the fundamental separation of Church and State is involved in any proposal yet brought forward; and whether the question of doing what is best for Ireland need of itself involve such alarm on the one side, or such exultation on the other, as would be naturally engendered by the abolition of the Irish Establishment, simply on the ground of the supposed evil of its connection with the State.
The word most commonly used, in popular discussions, to indicate the proposed change, is Disestablishment.'
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