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...them with adults in the family is the utter defeat of the vital element in Christianity. Christ stands in the world for that intuition of the highest ... ...ed on himself. This exclamation of Sam Weller is at once the nega- tion of Christianity and the beginning and the end of cur- rent morality; and so it... ...to the character and con- ditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity 97 Shaw which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and ...

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... in her heart she thought that one could not talk about exaggeration where Christianity was concerned. What exaggeration could there be in the practic...

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... ways angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another friend ...

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... of the ostensibly Chris tian sovereigns who have since reigned, persecuted Christianity. Placed at the summit of all the previ ous attainments of h... ...mbody in his moral writings the Chris tian ideal, he yet failed to see that Christianity was to be a good and not an evil to the world, with his duti... ... it seemed to be his duty to put it down. Inas much then as the theology of Christianity did not appear to him true or of divine origin; inasmuch as ... ...l facts in all history . It is a bitter thought, how differ ent a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had bee... ... was wanting to Marcus Aurelius for punishing, as he did, the propagation of Christianity. No Christian more firmly believes that Atheism is false, an... ...the dissolution of society, than Marcus Aurelius believed the same things of Christianity; he who, of all men then living, might have been thought the... ... accept this consequence, and say, with Dr. Johnson, that the persecutors of Christianity were in the right; that persecution is an ordeal through whi... ...ng a party to be effectually persecuted. No reasonable person can doubt that Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman empire. It spread, a... ...ment, for uttering, and writ ing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. Within a month of the same time, at the Old Bailey, two per...

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...at all. He means monogamy, chastity, temperance, respectability, morality, Christianity, anti-socialism, and a dozen other things that have no necessa... ... ears, burnt palms, a flogging, or a few years in the galleys. That is why Christianity never got any grip of the world until it virtually reduced its... ...ld was coming to an end, and that therefore sex was no longer a necessity. Christianity, because it began under these conditions, made sexlessness and...

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...er, as being more in harmony with the sub mission due to the divine will. Christianity, as well as other religions, has fostered this sentiment; but ... ...her religions, has fostered this sentiment; but it is the preroga tive of Christianity, as regards this and many other perver sions, that it is able... ... occupy nearly the whole of its vast territory. The fresh impulse given by Christianity came but just in time to save arts and letters from perishing,... ...ne, pur sues it by halves. If government schools and schoolmasters taught Christianity, whatever pledges might be given of teach ing it only to thos...

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...lish fable, like the Pope, to whom he is a pitiful purveyor. 458 His very Christianity may be questioned. 459 He ought to expect more severity than ... ... of Billingsgate can never be the language of charity, nor consequently of Christianity.’—P . 311 ‘On Codrus’ old, or Dunton’s modern bed:’ of Codrus... ...rd Oxford. Tindal was author of the ‘Rights of the Christian Church,’ and ‘Christianity as Old as the Creation.’ He also wrote an abu- sive pamphlet a...

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... era, the influential moral systems of Sto- icism, of monastic and popular Christianity and other re- 356 Democracy & Education ligious movements of ...