Book Excerpt: rld the same stern yet wholesome discipline under which the Western had been restored to life.The Egyptian and Syrian Churches, therefore, were destined to labour not for themselves, but for us. The signs of disease and decrepitude were already but too manifest in them. That very peculiar turn of the Graeco-Eastern mind, which made them the great thinkers of the then world, had the effect of drawing them away from practice to speculation; and the races of Egypt and Syria were effeminate, over-civilised, ...
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Book Excerpt: rld the same stern yet wholesome discipline under which the Western had been restored to life.The Egyptian and Syrian Churches, therefore, were destined to labour not for themselves, but for us. The signs of disease and decrepitude were already but too manifest in them. That very peculiar turn of the Graeco-Eastern mind, which made them the great thinkers of the then world, had the effect of drawing them away from practice to speculation; and the races of Egypt and Syria were effeminate, over-civilised, exhausted by centuries during which no infusion of fresh blood had come to renew the stock. Morbid, self- conscious, physically indolent, incapable then, as now, of personal or political freedom, they afforded material out of which fanatics might easily be made, but not citizens of the kingdom of God. The very ideas of family and national life-those two divine roots of the Church, severed from which she is certain to wither away into that most godless and most cruel of spectres, a religious world-had pRead More
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Early 1900's (no publication date inside the book) hardcover in good condition. One page is torn on the bottom next to the spine. All other pages are in good shape. Gold gilded pages on the top. Some wear to the inside portion of the spine. Some shelf wear to the brown spine & cover with gold trim. 444 pages. Measures 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5 inches.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Volumes I and II. Two clean, crisp, tight hardcover volumes in very good condition; light shelf wear, age-toned text block. No DJs, as issued.
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