You have been told Christianity (a word, by the way, quite un historical) crept into Rome as she declined, and hastened that decline. That is bad history. Rather accept this phrase and retain it The Faith is that which Rome accepted in her maturity nor was the Faith the cause of her decline, but rather the conservator of all that could be conserved.In the next periodthe Dark Agesthe Catholic proceeds to see Europe saved against a universal attack of the Mohammedan, the Hun, the Scandinavian he notes that the fierceness of the attack was such that anything save something divinely instituted would have broken down. The Mohammedan came within three days march of Tours, the Mongol was seen from the walls of Tournus on the Sone right in France. The Scandinavian savage poured into the mouths of all the rivers of Gaul, and almost overwhelmed the whole island of Britain. There was nothing left of Europe but a central core.Nevertheless Europe survived. In the refloresence which followed that dark timein the Middle Agesthe Catholic notes not hypotheses but documents and facts he sees the Parliaments arising not from some imaginary Teutonic roota figment of the academiesbut from the very real and present great monastic orders, in Spain, in Britain, in Gaulnever outside the old limits of Christendom. He sees the Gothic architecture spring high, spontaneous and autochthonic, first in the territory of Paris and thence spread outwards in a ring to the Scotch Highlands and to the Rhine....

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