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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.

— Christopher Hill The World Turned Upside Down (1972)

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

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