Page:The Rocky Mountain Saints.djvu/46

12 in his place might be no better and might do worse; but the assertion of Infallibility was the " vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself." Its assertion strips the people of human charity towards him. In his counsellings and teachings they are now required to see the authority of God, failing which they are "in darkness." He recognizes no right of thought diverging from his own, and this principle, carried to its legitimate extent, makes, in fact, one great something over a community of non entities. With liberty of thought and expression protected, Mormonism could have lived on, correcting its errors as it outgrew them, but with the assumption of an Infallible Priesthood its work has seen the beginning of the end.