Europe and the Faith"[...] Spain, not devout at all, but hating things not Catholic because those things are foreign, was more than apart. Britain had long forgotten the unity of Europe. France, a protagonist, was notoriously divided within herself over the religious principle of that unity. No modern religious analysis such as men draw up who think of religion as Opinion will make anything of all this. Then why was there a fight? People who talk of "Democracy" as the issue of the Great War may be neglected: Democracy-one noble, ideal, but rare and perilous, form of human government-was not at stake. No historian can talk thus. The essentially aristocratic policy of England now turned to a plutocracy, the despotism of Russia and [...]." |
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| Title | Europe and the Faith |
| Author | Hilaire Belloc |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Constable, 1921 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Oct 14, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1414221568, 9781414221564 |
| Length | 261 pages |
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