Excerpt from Our City of God Yet with all its defects, what great and eternally true things are there in his conception The view of world-history as the continuous unfolding of a Divine purpose; of world-policies, moralities, and economies as being rooted finally ln Spiritual principles of the State as subordinate to an invisible power that is higher than itself - does not all this remain to us not only august and venerable, but as essentially valid? Augustinianism needs and has received in our' time rigorous revision. But ...
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Excerpt from Our City of God Yet with all its defects, what great and eternally true things are there in his conception The view of world-history as the continuous unfolding of a Divine purpose; of world-policies, moralities, and economies as being rooted finally ln Spiritual principles of the State as subordinate to an invisible power that is higher than itself - does not all this remain to us not only august and venerable, but as essentially valid? Augustinianism needs and has received in our' time rigorous revision. But its root idea holds. It is the only one that covers humanity; that accounts for its history, and gives to its institutions and government their true basis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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