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The public were to nurse a sort of twilight conviction and keep their minds in a limbo of beliefs that were substantial and alive—only the light was bad.
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John Morley
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Morley describes the public's struggle with uncertainty and conflicting beliefs due to poor information.
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But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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