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ESSAYS ON LIBERTY

vindicating for themselves a place in every movement that promotes the study of God's works and the ad vance- ment of mankind. They will remember that, while the office of ecclesiastical authority is to tolerate, to warn, and to guide, that of religious intelligence and zeal is not to leave the great work of intellectual and social civilisa- tion to be the monopoly and privilege of others, but to save it from debasement by giving to it for leaders the children, not the enelnies, of the Church. And at length, in the progress of political right and scientific knowledge, in the development of freedoln in the State and of truth in literature, they will recognise one of the first among their human duties and the highest of their earthly rewards.