The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-26

"A slow but sure and unbroken pro-
gress of intellectual culture had been
going on within it's (the church, bos-
ON for series of ages all
the vital forces and productive ener-
gies of human culture were here
united and mingled. Won Ranke,
History of the Popes."
I'm the long conflict for personal
freedom the Catholic Church was the
special representative of progress, and
it was that Church which, through it's
efforts ant teachings, laid the very
foundations of modern civilization -
Lecky, History of Rationalism in Eu-
rope"
"The praise of having originally es-
tablished schools belongs to some
Bishops of the sixth century eng
land). Italian, Introduction to
Literature of Europe
I'VE have no evidence that educa-
ton as commonly understood is a pre-
ventive of crime Did much
knowledge and piercing intelligence
suffice to make men good, then Bacon
should have been honest and Ma
poleon should have been good
Herbert Spencer.
Education without religion would
surround us with clever devils."-The
Duke of Wellington.
ut was Christianity, religion of a
book, which for the first time intro
duced in many of the ruder nations
outside the empire the art Of writ
ing. Sir Henry Maine, History of
Early Institutions"
1--WE maintain that in any one
period OF sixty years, in any one OF
these centuries which we call so ia
miliarly the Dark Ages Eyes, even
in the tenth or eleventh., we engage
to name more and better books as the
product of the period given than were
produced in the whole $50 years from
Trajan to Honorius and Attila."-De
Quincy.
"The growing number of youthful
criminals and neglected children, and
the audacious and shameful forms
which the criminal spirit sometimes
takes, is serious problem to be
grappled with. / emphasize these
words because an increase of crime,
among the youth of a nation, where
there is an elaborate and costly sys-
tenn of education and great material
prosperity, is sign and token of
melancholy import" -Nineteenth Cen
fury, January, 1887.
Referring to the influence of Chris
tiQnifu ond tho
says:
"She has marched for fifteen hun
dred years at the head of civilization,
and has harnessed to her chariot, as
the horses of triumphal car, the
chief intellectual and material forces
OF the world. Her art is the art of
the world; her genius the genius of
the world. Her greatness, glory,
grandeur and majesty have been al
most, though not absolutely, all that
in these respects the world has had to
boast of. Her children are more num-
erous than all the members Of the
sects combined; she is every day en-
larging the boundaries of her vast
empire. Her affairs are raised i'm
every cline, and her missionaries are
to be found wherever there are men
to be taught the evangel of immortal
ity and there are souls to be saved.
And this wondrous Church, which is as
old as Christianity and as universal
as mankind, is today, after its twenty
centuries of age, as fresh and as Wig
orous and, as fruitful as on the day
when the pentecostal fires were show
cred upon the earth. Surely such an
institution challenges the attention
and demands and deserves the most
serious examination of those outside of
its pale