“Religion, like nations and individuals, passes through the regular gradation, first of infancy, when religious ideas and thoughts are crude in the extreme; the age of Puritanism, when innocent women and children are burned at the stake for witchcraft, whe https://library.hrmtc.com/2022/05/30/religion-like-nations-and-individuals-passes-through-the-regular-gradation-first-of-infancy-when-religious-ideas-and-thoughts-are-crude-in-the-extreme-the-age-of-puritanism-when-innocent-women/ #quote