...thereby attain To Peter's chair, and, when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers.0 I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance. 15 Birds of the air will tell of murders past!0 . I am ashamed to hear such fooleries.0 Many will talk...

...all women are Which long time lie untouch'd, will harshly jar. 7006 The Jew of Malta I count religlon 84 The E 0 7007 The Jew of Malta Thus methinks should men of judgement frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar...

...novelties into tools capable of re-shaping the material world. Chapter Four THE PROBLEM OF THE RENAISSANCE 'I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.' Marlowe, The Jew of Malta PAINTERS AND MYSTICS The Renaissance seems at times to be a game anyone can...

...longues, And let them know that I am Macheuill, And weigh not men, and therefore not mens words. . . I count Religion but a childish Toy, And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance. Birds of the Aire will tell of murders past; I am asham'd to heare such foolieries...

...thereby attain To Peter's chair, and, when they cast me off, Are poisoned by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. 15 Birds of the air will tell of murders past? I am ashamed to hear such fooleries! Many will talk...

...Racine: Phaedra, xiii. 7. Triumph of Relevance, 129. 8. Ibid., 130. 6.1.3 MARLOWE, RECKLESS GENIUS I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance. O, I'll leap up to my God! — Who pulls me down? See, see where Christ's blood streams i' the firmament!...

...blessings come to the good from the gods. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus, 1 23 (3rd century BCE) 1 1 I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (1592) 12 God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because...

...thereby attain To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off, Are poison'd by my climbing followers. I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past! I am asham'd to hear such fooleries. Many will talk of...

...Machiavel, And weigh not men, and therefore not men 's words. Admiredlam ofthose that hate me most [..] I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance [..] What nght had Caesar to the empery? Mightfirst made kings. [L'ebreo di Malta, Prologo, 1 sgg.]...

...hero: a man to whom the rewards and terrors of eternity are unimportant. Macbeth, indeed, seems to 'count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.' 3 This impression is not vitiated by the play's final scenes. When the death of his Queen is reported...