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Farewell to all thatThe Church of England was a product of the Protestant Reformation, elements of which established the separateness of the secular and religious magisteria. This in turn generated a counter-reformation in the Roman Catholic Church. The creative tension between the two led to an unprecedented eruption of intellectual advances in science, art and humanism culminating in the Renaissance. Secular law had its place in society, with an increasingly liberal social contract developing between the citizen and the state. Religious law more and more became a matter of individual conscience. Taken together, these influences set the West on a path towards individual rights, democracy and accelerating civilizational progress. We have all profited thereby, not least those who emigrated to the West from more benighted climes. Well:
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