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- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1517354315
- ISBN-13: 9781517354312
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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I say the Catholic "conscience" of history-I say "conscience"-that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower-I do not say "The Catholic Aspect of History." This talk of "aspects" is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it. I will rather do homage to truth and say that there is no such thing as a Catholic "aspect" of European history. There is a Protestant aspect, a Jewish aspect, a Mohammedan aspect, a Japanese aspect, and so forth. For all of these look on Europe from without. The Catholic sees Europe from within. There is no more a Catholic "aspect" of European history than there is a man's "aspect" of himself.
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- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1517354315
- ISBN-13: 9781517354312
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
I say the Catholic "conscience" of history-I say "conscience"-that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower-I do not say "The Catholic Aspect of History." This talk of "aspects" is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it. I will rather do homage to truth and say that there is no such thing as a Catholic "aspect" of European history. There is a Protestant aspect, a Jewish aspect, a Mohammedan aspect, a Japanese aspect, and so forth. For all of these look on Europe from without. The Catholic sees Europe from within. There is no more a Catholic "aspect" of European history than there is a man's "aspect" of himself.
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