Nations are benefited, I believe, for ages, by being thrown once into divine white-heat in this manner.

And no Nation that has not had such divine paroxysms at any time is apt to come to much.
That was now, in this epoch, the English of "adopting Protestantism;" and we need not wonder at the results which it has had, and which the want of it has had.

For the want of it is literally the want of loyalty to the Maker of this Universe.

He who wants that, what else has he, or can he have?
If you do not, you Man or you Nation, love the Truth enough, but try to make a Chapman-bargain with Truth, instead of giving yourself wholly soul and body and life to her, Truth will not live with you, Truth will depart from you; and only Logic, "Wit" (for example, "London Wit"), Sophistry, Virtu, the AEsthetic Arts, and perhaps (for a short while) Bookkeeping by Double Entry, will abide with you.

You will follow falsity, and think it truth, you unfortunate man or nation.