His gens or his phratria required him to believe as they believed.' Toleration is of all ideas the most modern, because the notion that the bad religion of A cannot impair, here or hereafter, the welfare of B, is, strange to say, a modern idea.
Bagehot discusses the modern concept of toleration in relation to religious beliefs.
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That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.
The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.
If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.
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