The Church And the Age
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As for Rome, just as Greece expired in giving birth to Hellenism, so the Eternal City was the mausoleum rather than the citadel of the sturdy race of soldier-farmers whose name THE CHURCH 55 was a terror from one end of the Mediterranean to another. The great machine remained her law and discipline and traditions of government but the men were gone.
So, amid the last sighs of the three great crea- tive nations of antiquity, the Catholic Church spread its wings over an exhausted and nerve- less ...world. It bears all the marks of its early surroundings. Graeco-Roman Catholicism is not a religion which could ever have been evolved by free men. Obedience, loyalty, patient endurance, self-devotion, gentle piety, all the virtues of the servile condition these it could preach and practise. But " self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, " truthfulness and honour, fair play and fidelity to obligations, a social conscience and indignation at public crimes above all, that intellectual honesty which dreads what Plato calls " the lie in the soul, " even more than the lie on the lips these never have been and are not the virtues which that type of Chris- tianity tends to foster.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As for Rome, just as Greece expired in giving birth to Hellenism, so the Eternal City was the mausoleum rather than the citadel of the sturdy race of soldier-farmers whose name THE CHURCH 55 was a terror from one end of the Mediterranean to another. The great machine remained her law and discipline and traditions of government but the men were gone.
So, amid the last sighs of the three great crea- tive nations of antiquity, the Catholic Church spread its wings over an exhausted and nerve- less ...world. It bears all the marks of its early surroundings. Graeco-Roman Catholicism is not a religion which could ever have been evolved by free men. Obedience, loyalty, patient endurance, self-devotion, gentle piety, all the virtues of the servile condition these it could preach and practise. But " self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, " truthfulness and honour, fair play and fidelity to obligations, a social conscience and indignation at public crimes above all, that intellectual honesty which dreads what Plato calls " the lie in the soul, " even more than the lie on the lips these never have been and are not the virtues which that type of Chris- tianity tends to foster.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Inge William Ralph to read onlineMoreLess
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