s fiscal
exigencies, all that it sucked out of the social body, and the more
strenuously inasmuch as there was less to be sucked out of it. Against
these sensual habits and customs and this economic system the Church has
preserved its primitive aversion, especially on two points, in relation
to the theatre and to loaning money at interest.]

[Footnote 5319: See St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, ch. I., 26 to 32;
also the First Epistle to the Corinthians, ch. XIII.]

[Footnote 5320: The First Epistle of John, II. 16.]

[Footnote 5321: Acts of the Apostles, ch. IV.,32, 34 and 35.]

[Footnote 5322: I cannot help but conclude that the two world wars,
started by Christian Governments, led to socialism and religious decay.
How large a role television played in removing the need for clerical
guidance and comfort is hard to determine, the fact is that the Churches
in Europe stand mostly empty and Taine's description fits rather will on
today's society. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5323: Saint Athanasius, the principal founder of Christian
metaphysics, did not know Latin and learned it with great difficulty
at Rome when he came to defend his doctrine. On the other hand, the
principal founder of western theology, Saint Augustin, had only an
imperfect knowledge of Greek.]

[Footnote 5324: For example, the three words which are essential and
technical in metaphysical speculations on the divine essence, have no
real equivalent in Latin, while the words by which an attempt is made
to render these terms, verbum, substantia, persona, are very inexact.
Persona and substantia, in Tertullian, are already used in their Roman
sense, which is always juridical and special.]

[Footnote 5325: Sir Henry Sumner Maine, "Ancient Law," p. 354. The
following is profound in a remarkable degree: "Greek metaphysical
literature contained the sole stock of words and ideas out of which
the human mind could provide itself with the means of engaging in the
profound controversies as to the Divine Persons, the Divine Substance,
and the Divine Natures. The Latin language and the meager Latin
philosophy were quite unequal to the undertaking, and accordingly
the western or Latin-speaking provinces of the Empire adopted the
conclusions of the East without disputing or reviewing them."]

[Footnote 5326: Maine, "Ancient Law," p.357 "The difference between the
two theological systems is accounted for by the fact that, in passing
from the East to the West, theological s