"It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism."

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

— Arthur Balfour