“God, to remove his ways from human sense, Plac’d Heaven from earth so far, that earthly sight, If it presume, might err in things too high, And no advantage gain.” -- Milton.The establishment of theological systems, claiming divine origin, has been among the most destructive causes by which the life of man has been afflicted. History furnishes an awful picture of the sad and fatal effects of fanaticism among the nations of the earth; but history furnishes only the exterior; there is a deeper internal wound, which superstition has inflicted in the bosom of society, subversive of all moral sympathy and the fairest traits in the character of man.