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195:10.17 Even [[secular]] [[education]] could help in this great [[spiritual]] [[renaissance]] if it would pay more [[attention]] to the [[work]] of teaching [[youth]] how to [[engage]] in life planning and [[character]] progression. The [[purpose]] of all [[education]] should be to foster and further the [[supreme]] [[purpose]] of life, the [[development]] of a [[majestic]] and well-[[balanced]] [[personality]]. There is great need for the teaching of [[moral]] [[discipline]] in the place of so much [[self-gratification]]. Upon such a [[foundation]] religion may contribute its [[spiritual]] [[incentive]] to the enlargement and enrichment of [[mortal]] life, even to the [[security]] and enhancement of life [[eternal]].
 
195:10.17 Even [[secular]] [[education]] could help in this great [[spiritual]] [[renaissance]] if it would pay more [[attention]] to the [[work]] of teaching [[youth]] how to [[engage]] in life planning and [[character]] progression. The [[purpose]] of all [[education]] should be to foster and further the [[supreme]] [[purpose]] of life, the [[development]] of a [[majestic]] and well-[[balanced]] [[personality]]. There is great need for the teaching of [[moral]] [[discipline]] in the place of so much [[self-gratification]]. Upon such a [[foundation]] religion may contribute its [[spiritual]] [[incentive]] to the enlargement and enrichment of [[mortal]] life, even to the [[security]] and enhancement of life [[eternal]].
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195:10.18 [[Christianity]] is an extemporized [[religion]], and therefore must it operate in low gear. High-gear [[spiritual]] [[performances]] must await the new [[revelation]] and the more general [[acceptance]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_101#PAPER_101:_THE_REAL_NATURE_OF_RELIGION real religion] of Jesus. But [[Christianity]] is a mighty religion, seeing that the commonplace [[disciples]] of a [[crucified]] [[carpenter]] set in motion those teachings which conquered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman world] in three hundred years and then went on to [[triumph]] over the [[barbarians]] who overthrew [[Rome]]. This same [[Christianity]] [[conquered]]—absorbed and exalted—the whole [[stream]] of [[Hebrew]] [[theology]] and [[Greek]] [[philosophy]]. And then, when this Christian religion became [[Sleep|comatose]] for more than a thousand years as a result of an overdose of [[mysteries]] and [[paganism]], it resurrected itself and virtually reconquered the whole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Western world]. Christianity contains enough of [[Jesus]]' teachings to immortalize it.
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195:10.18 [[Christianity]] is an extemporized [[religion]], and therefore must it operate in low gear. High-gear [[spiritual]] [[performances]] must await the new [[revelation]] and the more general [[acceptance]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_101#PAPER_101:_THE_REAL_NATURE_OF_RELIGION real religion] of Jesus. But [[Christianity]] is a mighty religion, seeing that the commonplace [[disciples]] of a [[crucified]] [[carpenter]] set in motion those teachings which conquered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman world] in three hundred years and then went on to [[triumph]] over the [[barbarians]] who overthrew [[Rome]]. This same [[Christianity]] [[conquered]]—absorbed and exalted—the whole [[stream]] of [[Hebrew]] [[theology]] and [[Greek]] [[philosophy]]. And then, when this Christian religion became [[Sleep|comatose]] for more than a thousand years as a result of an overdose of [[mysteries]] and [[paganism]], it resurrected itself and virtually reconquered the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Western world]. Christianity contains enough of [[Jesus]]' teachings to immortalize it.
    
195:10.19 If [[Christianity]] could only grasp more of Jesus' teachings, it could do so much more in helping [[modern]] man to solve his new and increasingly [[complex]] [[problems]].
 
195:10.19 If [[Christianity]] could only grasp more of Jesus' teachings, it could do so much more in helping [[modern]] man to solve his new and increasingly [[complex]] [[problems]].

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