It is curious to read in the history of the time how they were hailed as independent thinkers.

It was just exactly what they were not....

Where was I?
Oh, yes....

Well, that cleared the ground for us, and the Church made extraordinary progress for a while--extraordinary, that is, under the circumstances, because you must remember, things were very different from twenty, or even ten, years before.

I mean that, roughly speaking, the severing of the sheep and the goats had begun.