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 convictions as to its dogma; not for what the orthodoxy could give them; but, for all that they have afforded to this orthodoxy, a gift which is comparable with no other: for this religious democracy, corresponding to the thousand year-old elements of democracy in Roumanian society; for this historical tie between the style of literature and the prayers of the church, for this sense, in the church, of no other dependency than that of the development of the Roumanian nation itself, no abandonment is possible.