Quotation by George Berkeley

If ... we admit a divinity, why not divine worship? and if worship, why not religion to teach this worship? and if a religion, why not the Christian, if a better cannot be assigned, and it be already established by the laws of our country, and handed down to us from our forefathers?
George Berkeley (1685–1753), Irish bishop, philosopher. Crito, in "Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher," dial. 5, sect. 2, p. 176, The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, eds. A. Luce and T. Jessop, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. (1948-1957).
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