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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: century. It was, he says, "inasmuch as all those who had anything
to fear from revolutions, eagerly came to the rescue of the
established faith." Surely there was no talk of revolutions; no
wish, expressed or concealed, to overthrow either government or
society, in the aristocratic clique to whom English infidelity was
confined. Such was, at least, the opinion of Voltaire, who boasted
that "All the works of the modern philosophers together would never
make as much noise in the world as was made in former days by the
disputes of the Cordeliers about the shape of their sleeves and
hoods." If (as M. de Tocqueville says) Bolingbroke set up Voltaire,
neither master nor pupil had any more leaning than Hobbes had toward
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