Against the more insane forms of subjectivism in modern times, there have been various reactions. First, a half-way compromise philosophy, the doctrine of liberalism, which attempted to assign the respective spheres of government and the individual. This begins, in its modern forms, with Locke, who is as much opposed to enthusiasm - the individualism of the Anabaptists - as to absolute authority and blind subservience to tradition.p. xxii.

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