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ОглавлениеThe minds of men are the great wheels of things; thence come changes and alterations in the world; teeming freedom exerts and puts forth itself.
John Warr, The Corruption and Deficiency of the Laws of England (1649)
It was not a mere reform in the government but a social revolution which this [third] party worked to bring about. … The party was followed by a large number of inferior free-thinkers and fantastical dreamers, the one set in hope of licence, the other of equality of property and universal suffrage.
F. Guizot, History of Civilization in England, lectures delivered 1828–30
