This principle was first introduced into active politics in order to preserve the possessions of that portion of the aristocracy which had established itself on the plunder of the Church.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage offers a critical historical perspective on the initial political motivation behind the principle of religious liberty.
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Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.
They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.
All the economical palliatives and political pretences of long years seemed only to aggravate the suffering and confusion.
Not sympathy, but terror, seals the lip and clouds the eye of the bystander.
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