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It was only by the gradual extinction of the vestiges of her ancient barbarisms, as occasion offered, that the Church could have escaped the crash of the Revolution.
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John Morley
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Morley argues that the Church's gradual reform was necessary to avoid the Revolution's upheaval.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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