"Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Edinburgh Review October 1840, review of Ranke's History of the Popes
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