A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain Chapter 10 Page 3

had an admirable system of graded schools in full blast in those places, and also a complete variety of Protestant congregations all in a prosperous and growing condition.

Everybody could be any kind of a Christian he wanted to; there was perfect freedom in that matter. But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday-schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildings. I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, comple11ons, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate