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Does not nine-tenths of the blame of that lie at your door ? I took up , the other day , at hazard , one of your favourite liberty-preaching newspapers ; and I saw books advertised in it , whose names no modest woman should ever behold ; doctrines and practices advocated in it from which all the honesty , the decency , the common human feeling which is left in the English mind , ought to revolt , and does revolt . You can not deny it . Your class has told the world that the cause of liberty , equality , and fraternity , the cause which the working masses claim as theirs , identifies itself with blasphemy and indecency , with the tyrannous persecutions of trades-unions , with robbery , assassinations , vitriol-bottles , and midnight incendiarism . And then you curse the clergy for taking you at your word ! Whatsoever they do , you attack them . If they believe you , and stand up for common , morality , and for the truths which they know are all-important to poor as well as rich , you call them bigots and persecutors ; while if they neglect , in any way , the very Christianity for believing which you insult them , you turn round and call them hypocrites .