By gradual and human means, Europe, like ancient Greece, grew up towards better political institutions; and Christianity improved with them,--the Christianity of the more educated.

Beyond Europe, where there have been no such institutions, there has been no Protestant Reformation:--that is in the Greek, Armenian, Syrian, Coptic churches.

Not unreasonably then do Franks in Turkey disown the title Nazarene, as denoting _that_ Christianity which has not been purified by European laws and European learning.
Christianity rises and sinks with political and literary influences: in so far,[10] it does not differ from other religions.
The same applied to the origin and advance of Judaism.

It began in polytheistic and idolatrous barbarism: it cleared into a hard monotheism, with much superstition adhering to it.

This was farther improved by successive psalmists and prophets, until Judaism culminated.