The influence of the political discussion, and the influence of the religious discussion, have been so long and so firmly combined, and have so effectually enforced one another, that the old notions of loyalty, and fealty, and authority, as they existed in the Middle Ages, have now over the best minds almost no effect.
Bagehot discusses the intertwined influences of political and religious discussions on modern notions of loyalty and authority.
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