"Secluded from the world, attached from his infancy to one set of persons and one set of ideas, he can neither open his heart to new connections nor his mind to better information. A character of this sort is the soil fittest to produce that obstinate bigotry in politics and religion which begins with a meritorious sacrifice of the understanding and finally conducts the monarch and the martyr to the block."--Let. 39. Junius is here speaking of the king, who with a narrow understanding would naturally have a narrow system of politics and religion. But again: _Paine._ "We persecute no man, neither will we abet in the persecution of any man for religion's sake."--Crisis, iii. _Junius._ "The fundamental principles of Christianity may still be preserved though every zealous sectary adheres to his own exclusive doctrine, and pious ecclesiastics make it part of their religion to persecute one another."--Let. 58. "The writer of this is one of those few who never dishonors religion, either by ridiculing or caviling at any denominations whatsoever. To God and not to man are all men accountable on the score of religion."--Epistle to the Quakers. "If I thought Junius capable of uttering a disrespectful word of the religion of his country I should be the first to renounce and give him up to the public contempt and indignation."--Let. 54.