Reforming Quotes
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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming? God is making the American.
Israel Zangwill— 1908 The Melting Pot.
"As an animal, Matilda was all right, full of life, vigour, and activity; as an intelligent being, she was barbarously ignorant, indocile, careless, and irrational; and consequently, very distressing to one who had the task of cultivating her understanding, reforming her manners, and aiding her to acquire those ornamental attainments which, unlike her sister, she despised as much as the rest..."
anne brontë— Ch. VII : Horton Lodge
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill— The Melting Pot, act 1.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Ch. I (Biographia Literaria (1817))
[A] less conventional member of the squirearchy... a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions.
godfrey higgins— Yas Parish Registers of All Saint's, Owston.
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God . Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times.
turgot, anne robert jacques, baron de laune— White, ibid., Seven Great Statesmen...
