th the answer of a poor woman I saw ironing
on Sunday. 'Do you make no difference of your occupation on a
Sunday?' I said. 'I be a Christian, Ma'am; we have got no opportunity.' (86)
It was the government, Trollope believed, that interfered with its citizens being truly Christian.
"The influence of a religion, sanctioned by the government, could
in no country, in the nineteenth century, interfere with the
speculations of a philosopher in his closet, but it might, and
...