The Second Sleep

by Robert Harris

“So Church and state should be separate?” “It would be best for both.” “Then surely we would arrive at a place where the Church would have morals without power, and the state would have power without morality. That is exactly what led the ancients to disaster.” “So the Church maintains—but then of course it suits their interest to tell us such. But how are we to know if what they say is true, since they have made it a crime to investigate the past?” “Be careful, John,” warned Lady Durston.

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