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Page 188
... Christianity is a vast ocean , into which flow a number of spiritual currents of distant and various origin ; certain religions , that is to say , of Asia and of Europe , the great ideas of Greek wisdom , and especially those of ...
... Christianity is a vast ocean , into which flow a number of spiritual currents of distant and various origin ; certain religions , that is to say , of Asia and of Europe , the great ideas of Greek wisdom , and especially those of ...
Page 197
... Christianity * is that its conception of holiness is a frivolous one , or , what comes to the same thing , its conception of sin is a super- ficial one . The defects of the baser sort of political liberalism recur in liberal Christianity ...
... Christianity * is that its conception of holiness is a frivolous one , or , what comes to the same thing , its conception of sin is a super- ficial one . The defects of the baser sort of political liberalism recur in liberal Christianity ...
Page 247
... Christianity ? After the gentle Master , the impetuous Paul and the bitter Councils . It is true that this is what corrupted the gospel . But still Christianity has done more good than harm to humanity , and so the world ad- vances , by ...
... Christianity ? After the gentle Master , the impetuous Paul and the bitter Councils . It is true that this is what corrupted the gospel . But still Christianity has done more good than harm to humanity , and so the world ad- vances , by ...
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