text:  But although no rational man who knows the human heart will ever express a wish to see entire religious unity prevail in a state yet there can be no question that the prodigious multiplication of sects in Britain which strikes foreigners with such astonishment is mainly to be ascribed as well as the immense mass of civilized heathenism which through the whole of the eighteenth century was growing up in the island to the iniquitous confiscation of the property of the church which took place at the Reformation