Studies in Christian History
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He did not more than other men love suffering and privation, cold, fast- ing, and poverty for their own sake, but as means by which he was to obtain dominion over the flesh, and rise to liberty of spirit. Above all, his constant aim was to secure his personal salvation. We shall mis- understand the true aim of the monastic calling if we do not give this consideration a foremost place. Whatever other motives may have led men to assume a life of mon- astic seclusion, whatever collateral advantage...s may have ilowed from it in the preservation of ancient literature, agriculture, learning, and the like, this was the thought ever foremost and prevailing with the true monk, that he was thereby working out his own salvation. Even in days like the present, when this may be condemned as a mercenary consideration, an attempt to gain future blessedness at the expense of present pain, a regard 'to the truth constrains us not to forego this, to many so damaging a confession. The founders of monastic orders have sometimes been credited with far-reaching political sagacity, with foresight to perceive that by their means the valuable remains of antiquity would be preserved from destruction, the world saved from the tide of barbarism, and the civilisation of the future constructed on a new model.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He did not more than other men love suffering and privation, cold, fast- ing, and poverty for their own sake, but as means by which he was to obtain dominion over the flesh, and rise to liberty of spirit. Above all, his constant aim was to secure his personal salvation. We shall mis- understand the true aim of the monastic calling if we do not give this consideration a foremost place. Whatever other motives may have led men to assume a life of mon- astic seclusion, whatever collateral advantage...s may have ilowed from it in the preservation of ancient literature, agriculture, learning, and the like, this was the thought ever foremost and prevailing with the true monk, that he was thereby working out his own salvation. Even in days like the present, when this may be condemned as a mercenary consideration, an attempt to gain future blessedness at the expense of present pain, a regard 'to the truth constrains us not to forego this, to many so damaging a confession. The founders of monastic orders have sometimes been credited with far-reaching political sagacity, with foresight to perceive that by their means the valuable remains of antiquity would be preserved from destruction, the world saved from the tide of barbarism, and the civilisation of the future constructed on a new model.
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