...the intervention of Government in matters of faith produces that most harmful and therefore worst of vises, hypocrisy... the interference of Government in matters of faith hinders each individual and the whole people from attaining that highest blessing union with one another. For union is attained, not by the forcible and impossible retention of all men in the bonds of one and the same external, once-accepted, confession of a religious teaching to which infallibility is attributed, but only by the free advance of the whole of humanity towards truth, which alone, therefore, can truly unite men.