Since Luther's time there has been a conviction more or less rooted, that a man may by an intellectual process think out a religion for himself, and that, as the highest of all duties, he ought to do so.
Bagehot highlights the post-Luther belief in individual intellectual engagement with religion as a moral duty.
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