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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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John Morley
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Morley discusses how people focused on the truth of opinions rather than their historical context or relevance.
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I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.
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.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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