Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Roman Phil...
Professor J. Estlin Carpenter delivered a lecture last evening in Divinity Chapel on the influence which philosophy exercised upon the Greek and Roman doctrines on immortality...
...doctrines of Caesar, who held the view that there was no eternal life, and of Cato and Cicero, both of whom agreed with the views of Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
...They oppose the unseen yet dangerous power of the Roman Catholic Church. - (a) Enormous influence. - (1) In numbers. - (2) In centralization. - (3) In discipline. - (4) Through ignorance of adherents. - (b) Constantly increasing. - (1) Growth by immigration. - (2) Strengthening of discipline: Case of McGlynn; letters to Satoli from Bishop Coxe. - (c) Hostile to American Institutions. - (1) Makes the Roman Catholics a separate class. - (2) Opposes public schools: McGlynn in Forum, XVI, p. 13; E. D. Mead, Catholic Church. - (3) Controlled by a foreign "Potentate" claiming supremacy over our civil government: W. E. Gladstone, in Acad, p. 4; Vincent in Forum...
...Exclusion of Roman Catholics from public office and positions in schools would be an uncalled for injustice: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894, Principles 3 and 5. - (a) Membership in Catholic Church not irreconcilable with American citizenship. - (b) Alleged machinations of Pope - even if true - would be ineffective. - (1) Decline of Papal power. - (2) Weakness of Catholic Church in U. S. - (3) Publicity of action in U. S.: C. W. Eliot, Forum, xviii, 138 (Oct. 1894). - (c) Establishment of a religious test would be unconstitutional: Const. of U. S. Art. VI, Sec. 3, Amdt. I. - (d) A religious test for office holders...