In the maintenance of the pope and his court, followers and agents, six millions of our fellow-subjects or thereabouts are deeply interested; and they are making demands upon us which we are forced to decline.
Morley highlights the significant interest of a large population in the fate of the Pope and the challenges faced.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
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