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Christopher Dawson

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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.


— Christopher Dawson


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Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.


— Christopher Dawson


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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.


— Christopher Dawson


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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.


— Christopher Dawson


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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.


— Christopher Dawson


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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.


— Christopher Dawson


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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.


— Christopher Dawson


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It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.


— Christopher Dawson


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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.


— Christopher Dawson


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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.


— Christopher Dawson


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Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 1889 Hay Castle – 25 May 1970 Budleigh Salterton) was a British independent scholar who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Christopher H.

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