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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Paganism
Adopted
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Christianity

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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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