Europe and the Faith Belloc HilairePaperback
Europe and the Faith Belloc HilairePaperback "You have been told 'Christianity (a word, by the way, quite un- historical) crept into Rome as she declined, and hastened that decline.' That is bad…
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Europe and the Faith Belloc HilairePaperback
"You have been told 'Christianity (a word, by the way, quite un- historical) crept into Rome as she declined, and hastened that decline.' That is bad history. The Mohammedan came within three days' march of Tours, the Mongol was seen from the walls of Tournus on the S one: right in France. Rather accept this phrase and retain it: 'The Faith is that which Rome accepted in her maturity; nor was the Faith the cause of her decline, but rather the conservator of all that could be conserved.""In the next period--the Dark Ages--the Catholic proceeds to see Europe saved against a universal attack of the Mohammedan, the Hun, the Scandinavian: he notes that the fierceness of the attack was such that anything save something divinely instituted would have broken down.
The Scandinavian savage poured into the mouths of all the rivers of Gaul, and almost overwhelmed the whole island of