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having outraged that sentiment, found himself homeless—in the freest country in the earth.
Well, you see my point, do you not? I hope I have convinced you that at no time and in no country has the prevalence of Protestant and Liberal opinions been accompanied by that languid acquiescence in evil which masquerades under the name of "tolerance"; we are not "tolerant" now, we never have been "tolerant," and unless under compulsion, we never will be. We fight for the Good and the True, and (as Liberal leader-writers say when a Liberal Government is in office) wars cannot be made with rosewater. I trust that by this time I have quite convinced you that there was nothing inconsistent with Liberal and Protestant principles in my demand for the suppression of the works of Dante.
I do not wish to stifle a reverent curiosity as to the Future Life. Far from it; I have told you how my boy's anticipation of his Heavenly Home touched and pleased me, and, as I said, why should not
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