The Creed which taught
them that in the person of the Incarnate Logosthat which was most divine
had been proved to be most humanthat which was most human had been
proved to be most divineought surely to have given to themas it has
given to modern Europenoblerclearersimpler views of the true relation
of the ######es. Howeveron this matter they did not see their way. Perhaps
in so debased an ageso profligate a worldas that out of which
Christianity had risenit was impossible to see the true beauty and sanctity
of those primary bonds of humanity. And while the relation of the ######es
was looked on in a wrong lightall other social relations were necessarily
also misconceived. "The very ideas of family and national life as it has
been said
those two divine roots of the Churchsevered from which she
is certain to wither away into that most cruel and most godless of spectres
a religious worldhad perished in the Eastfrom the evil influence of the
universal practice of slave- holdingas well as from the degradation of that
Jewish nation which had been for ages the great witness for these ideas;
and all classeslike their forefather Adam--likeindeedthe Old Adam--the
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