It is too common an Error, to invert the Order of Things; by making an End of that which is a Means, and a Means of that which is an End. 311. Religion and Government escape not this Mischief: The first is too often made a Means instead of an End; the other an End instead of a Means.
Religion Is a means of attaining many good conditions or states. Government Likewise. Neither is an end in itself.