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That men who had striven for her dissolution should be admitted to her privileges seemed to Churchmen as tragic as ironical.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThat men who had striven for her dissolution should be admitted to her privileges seemed to Churchmen as tragic as ironical.
Laski reflects on the irony of Churchmen admitting those who sought to dissolve the Church into its privileges.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
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