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.
Concluding a reflection on historical writing, this expresses the author's belief in the ultimate pursuit of truth and the possibility of achieving objective historical accounts.
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He wished to see our society founded on a broad basis of civil and religious liberty.
The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.
He encouraged them by making occasions for their exertions, and would relinquish his own opportunity without a moment’s hesitation, if he thought the abandonment might aid a better man.
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