At the beginning of the Reformation, the father of the great French essayist Montaigne warned him that ‘this beginning of evil would easily degenerate into execrable Atheism’ (Essays, 54.2, chap. 12). Time, so often the best judge of opinions, has proven the old man wise. The Protestant principle of private judgement has, like an acid, eaten away at the…
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