I have observed that the philosophers in order to insinuate their polluted
atheism into young minds systematically flatter all their passions natural
and unnatural. They explode or render odious or contemptible that class of
virtues which restrain the appetite. These are at least nine out of ten of
the virtues. In place of all this, they substitute a virtue which they
call humanity or benevolence. By this means their morality has no idea in
it of restraint, or indeed of a distinct settled principle of any kind.
When their disciples are thus left free and guided only by present feeling
they are no longer to be depended on for good or evil. The men who today
snatch the worst criminals from justice will murder the most innocent
persons tomorrow. -- Edmund Burke
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