Neville Figgis Quotes

United Kingdom, Historian
1866 – 1919.

John Neville Figgis CR was an historian, political philosopher, and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection. Educated at Brighton College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was a student of Lord Acton at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work.

Also known as Philosopher

Is perhaps true to say, not that civil liberty is the child of religious liberty, but that liberty, whether civil or religious, was the work often reluctantly, sometimes unconsciously, undertaken by communities of men who had an end higher than political, who refused to submit religion to politic arguments, who fought for ends never entirely utilitarian.

Neville Figgis
- Religious
- Liberty
- Civil
Counter-Reformation, or whatever it be called, did attempt to save the Church from the scandals of the past, and to a certain extent succeeded. But it did so by increased centralisation, and a hardening of temper, alien from earlier movements of reform.

Neville Figgis
- Church
- Reform
- Scandals

Luther’s principles for the internal, and Machiavelli’s practice for the external, direction of the State were to be the ideal for many generations.

Neville Figgis