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The Wisdom Of Divine Rule Appears Not In The Perfection But In The Improvement Of The World... History Is The True Demonstration Of Religion.

Machiavelli's Teaching Would Hardly Have Stood The Test Of Parliamentary Government, For Public Discussion Demands At Least The Profession Of Good Faith.

The Epoch Of Doubt And Transition During Which The Greeks Passed From The Dim Fancies Of Mythology To The Fierce Light Of Science Was The Age Of Pericles, And The Endeavour To Substitute Certain Truth For The Prescriptions Of Impaired Authorities, Which Was Then Beginning To Absorb The Energies Of The Greek Intellect, Is The Grandest Movement In The Profane Annals Of Mankind, For To It We Owe, Even After The Immeasurable Progress Accomplished By Christianity, Much Of Our Philosophy And Far The Better Part Of The Political Knowledge We Possess.

Liberty And Good Government Do Not Exclude Each Other; And There Are Excellent Reasons Why They Should Go Together. Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End.

Liberty, Next To Religion Has Been The Motive Of Good Deeds And The Common Pretext Of Crime.