Catholic Church Quotes
If God had wanted these two rivers to be navigable, he could have effected it simply by a fiat, and it would be an infringement of the rights of providence to improve that which, for reasons not to be understood, it had wished to remain imperfect.
This statement was made by a group of priests when considering a projected canal in Spain
Catholic Church, Quoted in Williams, The Story of Spain
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Even in free America, Allen had a very difficult time getting this work printed because it was so controversial culturally.
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