Weakness has a constraining power difficult to understand, which is not foreseen even by those who give way to it; and of this the history of the
Conservatives Consider Concessions
The maintenance of the unity of the Conservative party," said Guizot, "the maintenance of conservative policy and power, will be the fixed idea and
An Almost Unreadable Conclusion
On the whole then I conclude as follows: If there is a form of Christianity now in the world which is accused of gross superstition, of borrowing its
“Men of a Desperate, Lawless, Reckless Faction”
Such was Christianity in the eyes of those who witnessed its rise and propagation. . . .Today we continue Christianity Appearswith a selection by
Why Romans Opposed Christianity
No wonder that the magistrate who presided at the martyrdom of St. Romanus calls them in Prudentius "a rebel people."Today we continue Christianity
Government Leaders’ Attitudes Towards Christians Then and Now
What had men of the world to do with abstract proofs or first principles? A statesman measures parties and sects and writers by their bearing upon
Gnostics and Superstitions
Let us proceed in our contemplation of this reflection, as it may be called, of primitive Christianity in the mirror of the world.Today we continue
Parallel Movements in the Levant
It is observable that, in the growing countenance which was extended to these rites in the third century, Christianity came in for a share.Today we
Three Roman Reports
They associated Christianity with the oriental superstitions, whether propagated by individuals or embodied in a rite, which were in that day