Ancient Rome And Modern America a Comparative Study of Morals And Manners
Ancient Rome And Modern America a Comparative Study of Morals And Manners
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We have not yet mentioned, however, the most serious drawbacks of the present-day lack of any fixed limit to men's desires. In the past ages, the efforts of religion were directed to educating men to self -intro- spection; to teaching them to explore their own con- sciences, to render account to themselves of their own sins and vices, and to try to amend them. One might even go so far as to say that from one point of view Christianity was principally a melancholy meditation on the perversity of... human nature, and an effort to purify it through meditation, suffering, and the love of God. One has only to read the letters of Saint Cather- ine, or the Divine Comedy, or Pascal's Pensees to realise to what an extent the moral refinement which is the fruit of these meditations preoccupied the loftiest minds, and, at second hand, the great ones of the earth in past centuries. A considerable part of the energies of every generation was consumed in this introspective effort, instead of in action ; for centuries and centuries, saints, moralists, and preachers abounded in Europe, while men of action, fit to conquer the world and its riches, nature and her secrets, were scarce.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We have not yet mentioned, however, the most serious drawbacks of the present-day lack of any fixed limit to men's desires. In the past ages, the efforts of religion were directed to educating men to self -intro- spection; to teaching them to explore their own con- sciences, to render account to themselves of their own sins and vices, and to try to amend them. One might even go so far as to say that from one point of view Christianity was principally a melancholy meditation on the perversity of... human nature, and an effort to purify it through meditation, suffering, and the love of God. One has only to read the letters of Saint Cather- ine, or the Divine Comedy, or Pascal's Pensees to realise to what an extent the moral refinement which is the fruit of these meditations preoccupied the loftiest minds, and, at second hand, the great ones of the earth in past centuries. A considerable part of the energies of every generation was consumed in this introspective effort, instead of in action ; for centuries and centuries, saints, moralists, and preachers abounded in Europe, while men of action, fit to conquer the world and its riches, nature and her secrets, were scarce.
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