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Our people forgot that the religious persecution, of which they cherished the bitter memory, was the result of the spirit of the age, and not of one form of religious faith.
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Editor's note · Context
Hoar points out that the memory of religious persecution is often misattributed to a single faith rather than the prevailing societal attitudes of the time.
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