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Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel.

— Christopher Hill

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Century of Revolution (1961)

Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.

The World Turned Upside Down (1972)

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