Europe and the Faith by BELLOC, Hilaire

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The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself of what he knows to be true and what other people cannot judge, so a Catholic, talking of the united European civilization, when he blames it, blames it for motives and for acts which are his own. He himself could have done those things in person. He is not relatively right in his blame, he is absolutely right. As a man can testify to his own motive so can the Catholic testify to unjust, irrelevant, or ignorant conceptions of the European story; for he knows why and how it proceeded. Others, not Catholic, look upon the story of Europe externally as strangers. "They" have to deal with something which presents itself to them partially and disconnectedly, by its phenomena alone: "he" sees it all from its centre in its essence, and together. (Hilaire Belloc)

  • 14 minutes 12 seconds
    Introduction
  • 12 minutes 52 seconds
    Chapter 7
  • 14 minutes 45 seconds
    Chapter 5 (cont.)
  • 15 minutes 1 second
    Chapter 5 (cont.)
  • 7 minutes 16 seconds
    Chapter 5 (concluded)
  • 13 minutes 7 seconds
    Chapter 6
  • 10 minutes 54 seconds
    Chapter 6 (cont.)
  • 9 minutes 55 seconds
    Chapter 6 (concluded)
  • 14 minutes 16 seconds
    Chapter 7 (concluded)
  • 13 minutes 58 seconds
    Chapter 5 (cont.)
  • 14 minutes 55 seconds
    Chapter 8
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