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was a grand material progress in this twentyfirst century, which excelled that of the twentieth as much as the twentieth excelled the nineteenth, and the nineteenth the centuries that preceded it. But leaving that to be understood or estimated by the reader from the allusions in preceding chapters, I shall devote the present chapter rather to certain national institutions, and their condition as characteristic of the times; and I would begin, as a good Churchman ought, with—

Just up to the twentieth century, the prominent idea of a national Church, in popular estimation, was