20 The cock on our steeples survival of day
21 when sacred – (to avert thunderbolts) - like geese.
22 Priests (& profit) ruin of all needs:
23 But when he says "religion" is "a sum of
24 scruples which impede the free ? of our
25 faculties", I venture to think that through
26 all the foolish fears, horrible irritations, &
27 cruel persecutions there still shows
28 in man's anxious quest for
29 some hope of a holy spirit beyond!
30 Though quite natural phenomena there was "spirit" also!!