Note 228 — Chapter XVI · BRITISH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

There is clear testimony that Charles James Fox, Pitt’s illustrious rival, was no more of a believer than he,228 though equally careful to make no profession of unbelief. And it was Fox who, above all the English statesmen of his day, fought the battle of religious toleration229—a service which finally puts him above Burke, and atones for many levities of political action.