Europe and the Faith, Sine auctoritate nulla vita
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Introduction - The Catholic Conscience Of History
_ I say the Catholic "conscience" of history--I say "conscience"--that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower--I do not say "The Catholic Aspect of History." This talk of "aspects" is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it. I will rather do homage to truth and say that there is no such thing as a Catholic "aspect" of European history. There is a Protestant aspect, a Jewish aspect, a Mohammedan aspect, a Japanese aspect, and so forth. For all of these look on Europe from without. The Catholic sees Europe from within. There is no more a Catholic "aspect" of European history than there is a man‘s "aspect" of himself.
Sophistry does indeed pretend that there is even a man‘s "aspect" of himself. In nothing does false philosophy prove itself more false. For a man‘s way of perceiving himself (when he does so honestl
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