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The New Review May 1935

1935

The ancient world too was not without its lessons : Plato and the Periclean age of Athens were really part of the education of the race for the coming of Christianity and not merely an isolated incident in the race's history : Platonism inevitably led to Christianity and nothing was to be lost but very much gained by studying the ideas and ideals of the Platonic age. [...] Kant stood appalled424 THE GOD-CONCEPT at the chaos to which Hume had reduced the cosmos by his destruction of the spirituality of the soul the freedom of the will and the very existence of God. [...] 'There are ten interpretations of Kant's Critique' a professor at the University of BerlinIN OCCIDENTAL THOUGHT 427 used to say 'which are the ten kinds of philosophy at the present time.' Far from resembling the architect of the symmetrical cathedral that is the Summa of Thomas Aquinas it was Kant's fate to lay the foundations of that grotesque sky-scraper the Tower of Babel which is modern [...] Having served as Minister General of the Friars Minor and also as papal legate to the Greeks before his elevation to the papacy Nicholas IV was well acquainted with the work and the needs of the missions ; and throughout his pontificate he evinced an extraordinary solicitude for the foreign missions of the Church writing no less than two thousand letters to promote the conquest of Palestine and t [...] Embarking at Ancona or Venice Montecorvino sailed to Antioch and proceeded to deliver the Pope's messages to the Patriarch of the Jacobites the Patriarch and the ruler of the Georgians the King of Armenia and the Ilkhan of Persia.
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Pages
110
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii M. S.J. Ledrus view
Saint Thomas More
409-421 A.J. Williams view
The God-Concept in Occidental Thought
422-427 Cyril Vollert view
Friar John of Montecorvino
428-443 Marion Habig view
The Personal Equation in Education
444-450 T.N. Siqueira view
Augustin Hiriart and the Peacock Throne
451-460 Zenobia Bamboat view
The Literary Heritage of the Malabar Christians
461-467 P.J. Thomas view
Swami Upadhyay Brahmabandhav
468-476 B. Animananda view
A Political Note-Book
477-487 Publius view
A Worker’s Life in Soviet Russia
488-493 unknown view
Notes and Comments
494-499 unknown view
Some Recent Books
500-512 unknown view

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