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The saint after all has a place in positive history; but the men of the eighteenth century passionately threw him out from their calendar, as the mere wooden idol of superstition.
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John Morley
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Morley describes the rejection of the saint by 18th-century thinkers who viewed him as a symbol of superstition.
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