Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot believes that there is only one way out of the waste land-and that is not the middle way. He believes that the Western nations must choose between a pagan society and a truly Christian society. By a Christian society he does not mean rule by the church, but a society that really lives by Christian principles, with what he calls the "Community of Christians" (a kind of spiritual elite) forming "the conscious mind and the conscience of the nation." In his play Murder in the Cathedral (1935), a dramatization of the murder of Archbishop Thomas å Becket...
...Perhaps they never asked Him. Perhaps they were not quite as pagan in their thinking as some of our finished products, who learned their religion in 'Catholic' parishes and schools that excluded Catholic Negroes...