Lectures on Modern history

Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

Capitolo 10

you reconcile Spain with Rome.

Soon after 1850 very of the most intelligent men in France,
struck by the increase arrested of them own population and from
the effective statistics from further Britain, guessed the arrival
the preponderance of the run English.  They didn't guess, that that
nobody could foresee then, he/she anchors him the most sudden growth of Prussia,
or what the three more important countries of the globe are able, from
the end of the century both that to that mainly you/they have belonged the
conquests of the Reform.  Then in Religion, as in so many
things, the product of these centuries has favoured the new one
elements;  and the centre of the gravity, moving himself/herself/itself from the Mediterranean
nations to the oceanic one, from the Latin to the Teuton they also have
passed by the Catholic to the Protestant #31.

Out of these controversies proceeded political as
historical science.  It was in the Puritanical phase, in front of the
restoration of the Stuarts that the theology, mixing with
politics, effected a fundamental change.  Him essentially the English
reform of the seventeenth century was less a struggle
among churches that among seven, often divided from
questions of discipline and the self-regulation rather than from dogma.
The sectarieses tenderly took care of any purpose or perspective to prevail on
the nations;  and they pertained to more with the individual
what with the congregation, with conventicles not with State
churches.  Their sight was tightened, but their sight was
sharpened.  It appeared to theirs that governments and institutions
you/he/she is made to pass away, as things of earth while souls are
immortal;  what more proportion there is not among the liberty and
to be able that between the eternity and time;  what, therefore, the sphere
of strengthened command should be tightened inside fixed limits,
and what what you/he/she had been served as authority, and it disciplines external,
and organized violence, should be tried by division of the power,
and busy to the intellect and the conscience of men #32 free.
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