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The vast change which time and its lessons have made in British policy towards differing nations and religions is doubtless greatly due to literary influence on the English public mind. The published informa- tion of many travellers has lately much enlightened home-staying fellow-countrymen in all relating to foreign lands and their inhabitants which the toler- ance of modern British thought has turned to practical purpose. The influence of Christianity alone, however, it must be owned, for man...y centuries in British history did little to mitigate the harshness or diminish the bigotry of political legislation. The laws enacted by sincere Christians, and steadily en- forced by them against religious and political op- ponents, show little difference in their unjustifiable cruelty from those of Pagan days. In the comparatively small bounds of British history, readers, if comparing the earliest wars or revolutions recorded in Europe generally with those of 1715 and 1745 in Britain alone, will perceive little BRITISH POWER AND THOUGHT 105 diminution ia the legal severity of political opponents.
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