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Powerful as Christianity proved as a moral agent , it was not equal to the political salvation of Rome . It did nothing , or next to nothing , in spite of its effect on manners , to drive away the moral languor under which the Empire ...
Powerful as Christianity proved as a moral agent , it was not equal to the political salvation of Rome . It did nothing , or next to nothing , in spite of its effect on manners , to drive away the moral languor under which the Empire ...
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Spirit by issuing upon this scene of things brings moral good to a world which before was but a system of forces , incapable of moral character : by the same act it makes the possibility and the general ( not particular ) necessity of ...
Spirit by issuing upon this scene of things brings moral good to a world which before was but a system of forces , incapable of moral character : by the same act it makes the possibility and the general ( not particular ) necessity of ...
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As the human providence which evokes the element of fire makes it possible that any house may burn and certain that some houses will burn , so spiritual virtue , by creating moral good , enables the characterless energies of Nature to ...
As the human providence which evokes the element of fire makes it possible that any house may burn and certain that some houses will burn , so spiritual virtue , by creating moral good , enables the characterless energies of Nature to ...
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Contents
LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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