“At that time there was some truth in the old joke which describes the English dislike of speculation by saying that all our philosophy consists of a short catechism in two questions: “What is mind? No matter. — What is matter? Never mind.” The only accepted appeal was to tradition.”

—  John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)

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