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Rh will not endure a really free discussion of matters they think all-important.

So far I have dealt with the purely individual aspect of the problem. But it is further complicated by all those social and political obstacles to the growth of toleration with which the historian is primarily concerned. In the crises of men's lives, theology has its social as well as its individual activities. Hence the sanctions of law and government are clothed with theological vestments-being the outward and visible signs that are needed by most men to symbolize an inward and invisible grace. Man, the inveterate idealist and idolater, cannot dispense with external trappings.