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Christopher Dawson

English Writer

Born: Oct 12, 1889

Died: May 25, 1970

Christian Culture Every Life Nature Political

Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

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

World Only Never New Content Always Continent Been Western Western World American New World Just Just One Literature American Literature Aspired Many Among

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. Christopher Dawson

Strong Control Nationalism Aggressive United Nations Enough Spirit Charter Idealism League Proved Nations Dynamism United Enlightenment

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. Christopher Dawson

Culture Passion National Past Doubt Aggressive Our No Doubt Civilization Unconscious Driving Driving Force Force Always Were Been Provided Western Western Civilization Revolutions In The Past Full Ignored Wars Even Elements

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. Christopher Dawson

Language Understanding Obstacle Greatest Greatest Obstacle Barrier International

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. Christopher Dawson

Knowledge Political Mediterranean Atlantic Purely Economic Exchange Never Between Ideas Institutions Also North Artistic Influence Literary Intercourse Central Forms Social Meant Social Institutions Europe

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. Christopher Dawson

Christian Purely More Than Any Movement Humanist

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. Christopher Dawson

Great History Age People Every Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Has-Been Civilization Development Been Existence Western Western Civilization Owed Movement The History Of Different Which Century International Many Cooperation

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. Christopher Dawson

Freedom Political Other Classical Something Civilization Highest Highest Level Western Western Civilization Antiquity Discussion Common Which Level

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

Work Heroes Long Before Stage Enough Folk Properties Poets Had Myths Became West Begun Get Did Them Hollywood Last

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