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— Henry Thomas Buckle"The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived."
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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