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Perhaps not many now read Tancred. ... Yet that book is far more than mere romance. It is evidence of the dissatisfaction with modern civilisation ...

— John Neville Figgis Civilisation at the Cross Roads (1912)

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The Christian says that life is a good thing, but has been marred by sin; and suffers from the growing pains of youth.

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It is strange what an attraction the Christian Church still possesses even for men who scorn her claims.

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The test of a civilisation is in its characteristic culture and in the type of men and women who thrive best in it.

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Jean Bodin is, next to Machiavelli, the most important political writer of the sixteenth century.

Studies of Political Thought from Gershon to Grotius, 1414–1625 (1907)

In the struggle between liberty and authority the possession of a hostile printing press becomes of capital importance.

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