The history of European belief offers a double record since the decay of polytheism, and if for a certain number of centuries this record shows the civilisation of men's instincts by Christianity, it reveals to us in the centuries subsequent, the reverse process of the civilisation of Christianity by men's instincts.
Morley reflects on the dual nature of European belief, highlighting the interplay between Christianity and human instincts over time.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
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