Superiority is, by its nature exclusive, the more especially when it is united to a certainty of truth and a kinship with the dominant political interest of the time.

Long years were thus to pass before the real meaning of the Toleration Act secured translation into more generous statutes.
The problem of the Church's government was hardly less complex.

The very acerbity with which it was discussed proclaims that we are in an age of settlement.

Much of the dispute, indeed, is doubtless due to the dislike of all High Churchmen for William; with their consequent unwillingness to admit the full meaning of his ecclesiastical supremacy.

Much also is due to the fact that the bench of bishops, despite great figures like Tillotson and Wake, was necessarily chosen for political aptitude rather than for religious value.