ABSTRACT
The right to profess beliefs of the religious class, has for its concomitant the right to manifest such beliefs in acts of worship. Those who profess other religious beliefs, in common with those who profess no religious beliefs, remain as free as before to worship in their own ways or not to worship at all. The only cases in which limitation can be urged with manifest force, are those in which the beliefs openly entertained. Effectual use of the combined forces of the community, presupposes subordination to the government and to the agencies appointed for carrying on war; and it may rationally be held that the open avowal of convictions which, if general, would paralyse the executive agency, ought not to be allowed.
