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Makers of the Modern Mind.

It's, uh, we're up to section three and it might be a short one.

Hopefully it packs a lot of punch.

Thank you for coming.

What can be said in summary form of the effect each maker of the modern mind has had on history? How is the world differed because of him?

We must remember, of course, that Luther was not the first maker of the modern mind. The

mentality upon which he said to work had been in the

making ever since the days of Greek antiquity. And fully to account for the way we think and act

today, it is necessary to go back to Plato and Aristotle, to work through Zeno and Cicero,

through the supreme contribution of the Apostolic Church, the contributions

of St. Augustine and perhaps Berthius, down to the great synthesis of St. Thomas in the 13th century.

From the Greeks, Western man obtained his logical, rational method of thinking, with its faith

in the ability of the mind of man to discover truth. From the Romans came an emphasis

on law and order, and from Christianity came the strong stress on charity and mercy, on just

dealing with one's fellows and with God. From them all came the lofty view of man as a being

who is master of all creation, who is Lord of all the universe, but who holds

all things in trust from the Lord of all to whom man is responsible for his human actions.

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