[Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookDawn of All CHAPTER II 17/45
Ideals of Social Reform met with the same experiences.
The Socialist with his dream of a Divine Society, the Anarchist with his passionate nightmare of complete individual liberty, both ran up together, in the heart of the black darkness, against the vast outline of a Divine Family that was a fact and not a far-off ambition--a Family that fell in Eden and became a competitive State; a Holy Family that redeemed Nazareth and all the world; a Catholic Family in whom was neither Jew nor Greek, nor masters against men--in whom the doctrine of Vocation secured the rights and the dignities of the Society on one side and the Individual on the other.
Finally Art, wandering hither and thither in the mazes of Realism, saw light ahead, and found in Catholic Art and Symbolism the secret of her life. "This, then, was the result--that the Church was found to be eternally right in every plane.
In plane after plane she had been condemned.
Pilate--the Law of Separate Nations--had found her guilty of sedition; Herod--the miracle-monger at one instant and the sceptic at the next--the Scientist, in fact--had declared her guilty of fraud; Caiaphas had condemned her in the name of National Religion.
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