The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation... Surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

William E.H. Lecky

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Calvinism Christian theology

Author

William E.H. Lecky

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History of European Morals

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Historical literature

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English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Historian Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 1.

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