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The question was whether the political circumstances would allow these ideals to be realised, whether freedom would be in a condition to prepare all these advantages. There were many doubters and deniers. There were many among the people of the Netherlands, attached to old traditions perhaps more than any other nation, who would not hear to all these novelties, who neither wrote nor spoke against them, but opposed an obstinate resist- ance to the pressure of their eager advocates. The cau- tiou...s old people shook their heads at the wild ideals of the younger ones. But the latter did not lose courage, and about 1780 they might still hope that the time was not far distant, when their ideals of renewal and reform were to be accomplished. In any case they were ready to suffer and fight for them and full of expectation as to the result of this fight for the true, the beautiful, and the good, of which their beloved authors had spoken to them in such eloquent language — an enthusiasm, not lacking in the sentimental character of the time, which was earnest in aim, no matter how bombastically and affectedly it might often be expressed.
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