Paganism in Education, from the Fr. 'le Ver Rongeur Des Societes Modernes' Tr. by R. Hill

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... the Christian and the pagan; Catholicism or socialism; all or nothing. Men and things, all that does not belong to one or the other, counts for nothing. On the other hand, the treatises or pieces alluded to above are wanting as to logical gradation. In fact, they offer, for instance, the study of St. Jerome ... Read More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... the Christian and the pagan; Catholicism or socialism; all or nothing. Men and things, all that does not belong to one or the other, counts for nothing. On the other hand, the treatises or pieces alluded to above are wanting as to logical gradation. In fact, they offer, for instance, the study of St. Jerome before St. Gregory, which is the contrary to what ought to be. The immortal pontiff is the type of Christian Latin; and it is only after thoroughly studying his works that the student can go on to St. Jerome without endangering his literary taste, for the writings of this latter still partake of the pagan style. The doctor of Bethlehem ought to form the transition between the Christian and the pagan tongues: such is the place he occupies in our library. CHAPTER XXX. PARTICULAR ADVANTAGES OF THIS LIBRAET. By introducing Christianity logically, gradually, and completely into education, we introduce it into the mind, for we like to repeat, the beautiful is the splendour of the true. This object, which is so desirable now-a-days, is attained with so much more certainty, because our classics are above all comparison in a literary point of view. We wish to insist on this important point, for the influence of paganism has been such, that a great number of persons have lost the taste for the beautiful in Christian literature still more than in painting and architecture. We repeat, that the Holy Scriptures, the Acts of the Martyrs, and the works of the Fathers, are the models we propose to youth. If the superiority of the style of the holy books over the thousand writers of all times is doubted by some persons, we ask them to meditate the following passage from an author free from suspicion. The following is the comparison established by Sterne... Read Less

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