Ancient Safeguards of Civilisation

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 14

Ancient Safeguards of Civilisation

“rjiHrN-K, if you cam, what European civilisation would have been- Jiikq (if indeed there were any) if Judaism had withered, if the Catholic Church had been wrecked, and if no- .memory had survived of the ordered wisdom of the Borman law,” writes Dr. E. Travers Hertford in 1 ‘ Some Ancient Safeguards of Civilisation.” “It is perhaps useless to speculate on what might haivo been if those three great factors of history had. .been absent or had failed to function.'"•-Wo are confronted by -the V . -

i fact that all l three were present and I did their work in the satfegua-rdiing orf | civilisation. Ashi working oiu the Talmud, Augustine fortifying the Catholic Chpireli, Justinian codifying the RomanLaw, did what they each did for ncaisons arising out of the crreumisltanccs of their owiihiiin o, an d none o-f them claim eld to have an?V prophetic vision- of the future; yet a'l'l three, in their sierverad ways*- made a result wholly beyond their imagination amid fulfilled a purpose of which fifoey were entirely urn-, conscious.” 1 _ _ t ■-