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a Commodes or • Caracalla
tits. were
not but seem a travesty on
human nature of a people that had
produced a Cato and a Seneca.
At the same time that Rome was
vainly striving to call a religion or
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saonuml into bciiig, one was shaping final(
the vast number of Rome's
tial factor in the self- coalescence of the peoples it had an
nexed to itself than any of its great • populace that had in'ti reduced to
or
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adjustment of Judaism is its estimate prdecessors. Babylonia, h.Kypt,
p
honieles Chriatianity went on
of the religions with which it conies Syria, Persia and Greece, each took Siritual
-half centuries
in contact. In the past that estimate its turn at world empire. The very !a winning adherents anionic the masses
could afford to be influenced by a jus- ascendency of each of these empires of foreigners slaves captives, mar-
pul chants and other individuals whom
tifiable resentment. Today it must be involved the crushing and verizing
the lesser nationalities that flour- c
perfectly fair and in accord with facts. of
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fished in the ancient world. As one circumstances hail torn away from
oorings. By the beginning of
But what are the facts? Where have
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religoins of savage and primitive so- ing whatever individuality the peoples
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power,
ciety have received the attention of that came under its sway possessed• Constantine,
the scientists, whereas the dominant
In the early days of human history, grasped his opportunity by placing
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a
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interest to the world have, as
crude, the subjugation of a pelt' se nt imental i i y that led him to adopt
whole, been dealt with in large still
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different from our own. The accounts 'sleet! to this day. its
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ancient humanity. It represented the
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world cannot fathom, the Jewish people nut
religions " f adult: phose
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of the experience of the preceding
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its childhood stage. Had we, in fact, of war and polities. Their hegemony . disruptive influences of the world em-
taken the trouble to get a truer in- was absolute, their legions were irre- ! pires, but it seemed to draw new life
maneuvers !and strength from each catastrophe.
sight into the nature of the great liv.
sistible, their diplomatic
ing religions of mankind, we would were bewildering, their power in or- It withstood the shattering effect of
network transportation and exile inflated upon
have been spared all sorts of spook
ganization overawing. The
and dream theories as to the origin of military roads and bridges, which it by the Chaldean Empire; it ad-
g and basis of religion
itself to a state of servility im-
Rome built to facilitate the dispatch instill
Not having a true science of religion of its armies from one end of the posed upon it by the Persian Empire;
to fall back upon, Judaism should seek world to the other, became a means of it met and overcame the solvent ten-
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popular misconceptiums and resort to
it refused to be crushed by
• principles which have at least a prag- munication. This, together with a Empire;
sovereignty which penetrated into the the, weight of the Roman Empire.
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common life. By the time the Jewish people en-
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propagate new ethical truths. There
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Babylonia, went so far as to render I
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mind
of
the
the greater part of mankind suscepti was enough of idealism and spiritual
.0 ion as a self-co nsc
.• group, instead as the truth about God
that', worth in the ethical teachings of some
being. responsible Me to any new o rganizing force
might present itself. So universal ! of the philosophic schools to bring
and the feeling a
the knowledge
to Ilim, will not only help to wider-
not !about the millenium, ith
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religion, but also that was this destructive process that
at
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alone obscure nationalities, but even
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people really
our neighbors. If Judaism is the
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so illustrious and cultured a people
gave Lt the world was the capacity
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the Greeks, were deprived of their for that social self-consciousness
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social selfhood. It is true that Rome
the decomposed ee and ocram.
Christendom, Islam of the Mohamme-
itself was able to bold together for !whereby
the
dans, the Buddhism of the Buddhists.
humanity at the ff
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wass welded from
This is a conclusion from which mots
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between one religion and another. it was bound to give way in time.
a people of God.
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But the Jewish people did this in-
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philosoph.e human race together permanently was
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revlted against imbuin g an empire
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ntu,f. able to infuse a common life or sin-
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pirit and purpose into the • with a conunon life and purpose. This
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population of the provinces; if, in was not due to any narrowness or
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o Irate the thesis that every one of them other words, it had possessed a genu- selfishness on its part. For that mat-
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bad ter, no nation was more eager to corn-
is the
corporate ourselves.
soul o f it s a dhe
ren t s. ine religion, it would not have
the results tif its discoveries
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confine
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become Christian in order to sur- municate
, because Of the greater to
elec.
in
the
domain
of the spirit. But it
to Christianity
dreaded the spiritual
o praotisal importance to an of under.
But that is just what pre-Christian
tanding its chararter. The close con-
having tyranny that would necessarily have
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was unable to do. Not
f our neigh- Rome
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a
soul
of
its
own
how
could
it
breathe
to
go
with
the
attempt ts impose a . - ,
s hors render our comprehension of it
u consciousness up , n a hetet
one into the rest of the world? The ' comnm world of peoples. It never !
indispensable as a means of evalunt-
oiceneous
ing our own. The fact that we are to fact is that ancient Rome itself at withheld its rich treasures of life and
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hok at it from a Jewish standpoint no time constituted a nation in the thought from those that were fit and •
ng
rganic sense of the term. It con-
does not militate against our formiin- o
and willing to accept them, but it refused
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s pirit and
estimate of its
a true es
military camp. At first the senate
o tluence.
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the military camp; later the
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was greater part of the populace, even in
that it
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little by the problem of of Rome as little as the most obscure .
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continued
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consume
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This failing of pre-Christian Rome
So h ng as creed or deed of an with
stands out in full relief when we con-
is made to appear synonymous
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sider the deliberate effort it made to
religion, the spirit of rancor will be
overcome it and the subsequent fiasco
■ and Institutions in the City.
irrepressible, because each religion
tint
will continue to regard itself as the in which that attempt resulted.
long after Rome had entered into the
sole herald of what is true, and th
possession of almost the entire civi-
only teacher of what is good. But
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when the different faiths are viewed lized world there dawned upon it the
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as the collective minds of corporate truth that it needed something to hold
much right to its different parts together, a religion
as
entities, that have
that would give organic unity to all its'
exist side by side in the same world
Satre members. It consciously undertook
as different persons in the
new and different under- the task of creating a state religion.
group, a
standing and tolerance will dawn Herein lies the significance of em-
upon mankind. As far as relations peror-worship which came into vogue
between Jew and Christian are con- during the reign of Augustus. It was
deliberate attempt to foster a com-
cerned, nothing else will mk e for a
as read- mon spirit in the huge and heterogen-
mutual respect and good will a
eous
complex of nations that were
ily as the realization that the collec-
tive personality of which each is a comprised within the empire. Rome,
mission though on the whole tolerant in mat-
a
part has a right to exist and
with great
to perform, resrtive of the identity ters of religion, enforced mneror.wor.
Rtriv-
Igor the observance of e
e 0 their spirituel
c
ifferen
d
ship, because it was made ssno
or
togs or of the fromu as n
moos with the duty of allegiance.
those strivings are embodied.
We cannot be said to comprehend Hence to refuse to burn incense be-
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that it owes its existence to Rome nn tantamountto
treason.
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The nature of
t. th a n
empire was, from its
two-fold indebtedness will become ap- a soul into t e
life
glance at the inception, doomed to failure. The
a
cast
.
we
animate
parent if
events of the general history of man- with which it was proposed to
the
various
parts
of
the
great
body
kind before Christianity was ushered
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