CIVILISATION
DISTINCT FORM OF SOCIETY. Christian civilisation is a distinct form of society, based on definite beliefs as to the nature of sovereignty and the duties of the citizen, writes Lord Eustace Percy in the “Spectator.” It is not the kingdom of God; it is not the ground of the Christian faith nor the goal of the Christian hope; indeed, it involves compromises which are a perpetual perplexity to Christians: but it is a hard political reality. It can no more coalesce with the worship of Wotan or with. Communist materialism than steel can alloy with granite. It can do business with such opposites: it can co-operate with them in common tasks; but to speak of such common action in terms of federal union is to use words without meaning. A federation is not a trusteeship exercising delegated powers, nor even a partnership which can be dissolved: it is a sovereignty, independent, indivisible and self-subsisting, and secession from it is rebellion. No Christian can contemplate such a union of Europe unless it is a union of Christian States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1940, Page 7
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