1: Protestantism's abandonment of theology and concentration upon taboos
‑: men of science: morally, and therefore politically, such men may be, and often are, grossly ignorant and stupid
3: The 13th Century was astonished, not like the 19th by mastery over nature, but by the discovery of the great moral forces in human nature
‑: prying impudence
4: the dogma of the infallibility of the press
8: the tie of personal devotion and loyalty to a chieftain belongs not only to every barbarian, but to every schoolboy
10: Many of our politicians think of government, not as something to live under, but to live upon
17: The guilds guaranteed to the workman his independence and security so well that our labor unions grope after them like blind giants
24: our industrial societies with their exaltation of power
49: the Albigensians believed, not in marriage, but in promiscuity. [The heresy included a penchant for suicide]
81: dabbling in bigamy on the modern American plan
122: Innocent 3 had the high sense of fairness often bred in upright natures by the study of law, and the exercise of power
233: on the connection between industrial capitalism, Edward 6, Elizabeth and laws against drunkenness (the result of poverty)
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