Nor is this to be wondered at, when ignorance was rewarded and learning discouraged by those twins of darkness, the sovereign and the clergy, and the only hopes of the Bourbons and the Vatican depend upon brutalizing the national mind.
Garibaldi explains that the suppression of intellect was unsurprising, given that the sovereign and clergy actively discouraged learning to maintain their power.
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