Word: graeco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progressive process of the revelation of always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which all of us pay some measure of allegiance; and this tribal religion is, of course...
...Frazer and Gibbon, Historian Toynbee replies: the Graeco-Roman civilization was not destroyed by Christianity but "decayed from inherent defects of its own." He also rejects the idea that religions act as bridges between civilizations. He sees it as just the reverse...
...first appearance Christianity was provided by the Graeco-Roman civilization with a universal state, in the shape of the Roman Empire with its policed roads and shipping routes, as an aid to the spread of Christianity round the shores of the Mediterranean. Our modern . . . civilization in its turn may serve its historical purpose by providing Christianity with a completely worldwide repetition of the Roman Empire to spread over...
...this happened in Italy, which was a nation well within the stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...