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James Russell Lowell, Among my books 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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us usurpation. All were clamorous for liberty; and even Jacobites and patriots could, at last, frame a coalition. The nation had elected its dynasty from a commonwealth which had allowed a home to Spinoza, and had sheltered skepticism itself in Bayle; and it was no longer possible to set limits to the active spirit of inquiry. The philosophy of Locke, cherishing the Chap. XIX.} variety that is always the first fruit of analysis and free research, was protected and admired, even though it seemed to endanger some dogmas of the Church, of which the denial was still, by the statutes, a crime. The English chancellor would have become openly the friend of Bayle, if the self-respect of the scholar had not refused his patronage. Men not only dissented from the unity of faith, but even denied the reality of faith; and philosophy, passing from the ideal world to the actual, claimed the right of observing, weighing, measuring, and doubting, at its will. The established censorship of the