John Morley: “Man, he used often to say, is the least comprehensible of creatures, and of men the most incomprehensible are the…”

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.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.