5236. MIND, Influencing.—
All attempts
to influence [the mind] by temporal punishments,
or burthens, or by civil incapacitations,
tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and
meanness, and are a departure from the plan
of the Holy Author of our religion, who
being Lord both of body and mind, yet choose
not to propagate it by coercions on either,
as was in his Almighty power to do, but to
exalt it by its influence on reason alone.—
Statute of Religious Freedom. Washington ed. viii, 454.
Ford ed., ii, 238.
(1779)
