Here is the outcome of the liberty that infidels talk so much about. “Art-liberty” is to ANNIHILATE CONSCIENCE and the distinction between virtue and vice so completely that there will be no more use for the words, “they will be obsolete.” “All benefiting selfishness will then govern humanity.” Reader, are you prepared for such a state of society? “If all _contracts_ in accordance with present ‘law’ were fulfilled to the letter, and if all the ‘_duties_’ enjoined by present moralism were unflinchingly performed, and if all which ‘virtue’ styles ‘vice’ was entirely abstained from, and if what is now ‘free trade’ according to ‘law,’ had a ‘fair field,’ how long would it take a millionth of the earth’s inhabitants to accumulate _all_ its wealth? In my opinion, it would not take ten generations to produce that reign of ‘law,’ ‘principle,’ ‘morality,’ ‘virtue’ and ‘free trade,’ or mind-your-own-business, and every-one-for-himself-ism, on the earth.” Are infidels down on law, down on virtue, down on principle, down on morality, etc.? _It seems so._ “But there must be no stealing, swindling or robbery, as _legally defined, on any_ account; and there must be no sexual intercourse out of the bonds of monogamy, _even for bread_, and, above all, there must be no acts, or even words of _treason_. The laboring man and the laboring woman must patiently and slowly (nay, not very slowly, I’m thinking,) die on such wages as they who, _in perfect security_, hold all the wealth, choose to give; and those out of work must brave martyrdom to ‘principle,’ by starving straightway, unless they can obtain a ‘permit’ to drag out a few months, possibly years, in sack-cloth and on water-gruel in an almshouse.... Was Thomas Paine here to-day his old remedies, religious and political _popular_ free discussion and reasoning, would be thrown aside or only used to assist science and art to displace them in religious and state affairs.” Truth will come to the surface! Here it is speaking for itself. The office of “art-liberty,” the liberty for which infidels plead, is to destroy _popular free discussion_ and _reasoning_, allowing them _only_ in order to destroy themselves, that is, allowing the infidels to use them to displace them in RELIGIOUS and STATE _affairs_. This is called “art-liberty;” liberty in art and science, and despotism in religion and politics OR STATE. Such a society, plus the absence of conscience, virtue and vice, is the infidel’s ideal of free government. All this means is simply “intolerance” by law; intolerance in “religious and state affairs.”