The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of...

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of...

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then...

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then...

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject...

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject...

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then...

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then...

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe...

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe...

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate...

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate...

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what...

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what...

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture....

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture....

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles...

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles...

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics...

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics...

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic...

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic...

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the...

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the...

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and...

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and...

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has...

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has...

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely...

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely...

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities...

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities...

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life,...

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life,...

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage...

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage...