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...audience all the pregnancy of his preaching lay in his strong assertion of supernatural claims, in his denunciatory visions, in the false certitude which...struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without Buflkring vitiation: his standard must be their lower needs, and not his own best insight. The mysteries...

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...liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down. No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering irritation ; his standard must be their lower needs, and not his own best insight. It is the moment...

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...It was his ruin, for his purpose was vitiated, and his influence waned. George Eliot well says that "no man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed...their lower needs, and not his own best insight." This was tho sad fate of the great Florentine preacher and reformer. He lost his faith, and he spoke...

...It was his ruin, for his purpose was vitiated, and his influence waned. George Eliot well says that "no man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed...multitude without suffering vitiation ; his standard must be^their lower needs, and not his own best insight." This was the sad fate of the great Florentine...