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- For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and…
- It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not…
- It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
- The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own…
- Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves…
- This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no…
- And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced…
- Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its…
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