He did indeed speak of 'the concatenation of human affairs,' but only in the same sentence with 'the sequence of the counsels of God.' The gorgeous rhetorician of the Church was not likely to rise philosophically into the larger air of universal history, properly so called.
He points out the limitations of Bossuet's historical perspective, which intertwines theology with history.
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This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
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