"What pure reason and boundless knowledge can do, without sympathy or throb, Maine can do better than any man in England."

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Original Language: English

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Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone (8 August 1880), quoted in Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ed. Herbert Paul (1904; 2nd ed. 1913), p. 25