premise: A century ago , Newman saw that <mask> ( what we now might call secularism ) would gradually but definitely make its mark on English Protestantism , and that even high Anglicanism would someday no longer be a `` serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own '' .
hypothesis: the proper context for <mask> here should be a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution