they deprive the clergy of their property, and pay them by salaries; they divert to their own use the influence of the priesthood, they make them their own ministers-often their own servants-and by this alliance with religion they reach the inner depths of the soul of man.
kleroari jabetzak kentzen dizkiote, soldata esleitzen diote, apaizak daukan eragina desbideratu eta beren probetxurako bakarrik erabiltzen dute; beren funtzionarioetako bat bihurtzen dute, eta sarritan beren zerbitzarietako bat, eta berarekin gizaki bakoitzaren arimaren barren-barreneraino sartzen dira20.