Baxter Men

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    In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

    Hamlet: Why was he sent into England?
    Grave-digger: Why, because a was mad. A shall recover his wits there; or if a do not, ‘tis no great matter there.
    Hamlet: Why?
    Grave-digger: ‘Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)