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John supported free will, and this might have passed uncensured; but what roused indignation was the purely philosophic character of his argument. Not that he professed to controvert anything accepted in theology, but that he maintained the equal, or even superior, authority of a philosophy independent of revelation. He contended that reason and re
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The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described
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