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Dawn of All

CHAPTER II
14/45

Two results followed--first, all grievances vanished; and secondly, the whole pauper population of England within ten years was Catholic in sympathies.

And yet all this is only a reversion to medieval times--a reversion made absolutely necessary by the failure of every attempt to supplant Divine methods by human.
"Now look at it all in another way--the general situation, I mean.
"The Socialist saw plainly the rights of the Society; the Anarchist saw the rights of the Individual.

How therefore were these to be reconciled?
The Church stepped in at that crucial point and answered, By the Family--whether domestic or Religious.

For in the Family you have both claims recognized: there is authority and yet there is liberty.

For the union of the Family lies in Love; and _Love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty_.
"Now, as I have put it--and as we all now see it--the argument is simplicity itself.


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