extravagance does in other countries. This enables every man to
bear their extreme taxes, and makes them less sensible than they
would be in other places." (_Observations upon the United
Provinces_, Chap. IV, p. 158.)

5 Sir William Temple writes in 1672: "It is hardly to be imagined, how
all the violence and sharpness, which accompanies the differences of
religion in other countries, seems to be appeased or softened here,
by the general freedom which all men enjoy, either by allowance or
connivance. No man can here complain of pressure in his conscience.
The power of religion among them, where it is, lies in every man's
heart." (_Observations_, Chap. V, p. 180.)

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