Where, however, there was any question of the two religions whose document and standards are professedly drawn from the Bible, there the Frenchmen of that time assumed not a historic attitude, but one exclusively dogmatic.
This quote highlights the dogmatic approach of the French towards religious documents, contrasting it with a historical perspective.
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