The new idea of the Reformation in religion, and the enlargement of the MOENIA MUNDI by the discovery of new and singular lands, taken together, gave an impulse to thought which few, if any, ages can equal.
Bagehot highlights the transformative impact of the Reformation and new discoveries on thought during a pivotal historical moment.
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Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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