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Article: All we like sheep ...(religious aspects in Australia)
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- Quadrant
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- September 1, 2006
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I am afraid that he has not been in the inside of a church for many years; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
THUS SAID Samuel Johnson about his friend Doctor John Campbell (whom elsewhere Johnson described as "the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature"). Johnson himself was devout and attentive to religious duties, but always ready to acknowledge the merits of those who did not go to church. He would have understood Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister.
The Church of England being legally established as the religion of the realm, Melbourne was obliged to ...