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The European Union in Prophecy
long afterward, by the public burning of the Bible. On one occasion "the Popular
Society of the Museum" entered the hall of the municipality, exclaiming, "Vive la
Raison!" and carrying on the top of a pole the half-burned remains of several books,
among others breviaries, missals, and the Old and New Testaments, which "expiated
in a great fire," said the president, "all the fooleries which they have made the human
race commit."-- Journal of Paris, 1793, No. 318. Quoted in Buchez-Roux, Collection of
Parliamentary History, vol. 30, pp. 200, 201.
It was popery that had begun the work which atheism was completing. The
policy of Rome had wrought out those conditions, social, political, and religious, that
were hurrying France on to ruin. Writers, in referring to the horrors of the Revolution,
say that th