Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


In answer, I felt and I avowed that these works were _not_ the
fruits of Rome; they were but her abundant blossoming, but the fair
promise she showed the world, That bloom, when set, savoured not of
charity; the apple full formed was ignorance, abasement, and bigotry.
Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of
their servitude. Poverty was fed and clothed, and sheltered, to bind
it by obligation to "the Church;" orphanage was reared and educated
that it might grow up in the fold of "the Church;" sickness was tended
that it might die after the formula and in the ordinance of "the
Church;" and men were overwrought, and women most murderously
sacrificed, and all laid down a world God made pleasant for his
creatures' good, and took up a cross, monstrous in its galling weight,
that they might serve Rome, prove her sanctity, confirm her power, and
spread the reign of her tyrant "Church."

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