“THE changes that have come over Europe in the last century are too great to be ignored by anyone, but their very greatness and nearness to us prevent their really being understood. They have been admired blindly and enthusiastically as the dawn of a humanitarian millennium or they have been condemned by the traditionalists for undermining authority and order. By both parties, however, the fundamental characteristic of the new age has been misconceived. It is not liberty, but power which is the true note of our modern civilisation. Man has gained infinitely in his control over Nature, but he has lost the control over his individual life.”
~Christopher Dawson: from The Catholic Tradition and the Modern State. (1936)
Share This
