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When the Soviet representatives meet ours at the conference table they are in effect meeting the last tottering princes of original sin; and they cannot give way to us without yielding divine principle. That is one reason why the Russians are so difficult to get on with in pagan assemblies that do not worship Marx, Lenin and Stalin...
...poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory I would be an anarchist. I believe the path of progress that is natural and beneficial for man is toward an anarchist community. Some...
...Hayes, a history professor at Columbia, has often said that he is against all forms of totalitarianism. Nevertheless, in his Wartime Mission in Spain (published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution...
...Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
...Under the pressure of materialism and advertising and salesmanship, America's funerals have, within the past fifty years, degenerated into a pagan preoccupation with vulgar display and pagan concern for the body, to the almost total neglect of the spirit...