The Influence of Catholicism On the Sciences And On the Arts
The Influence of Catholicism On the Sciences And On the Arts
Andrs De Salas Y Gilavert
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What are the results left on the soul by all these grand beauties? Ah ! how much more highly favoured is the Catho- lic poet in his solitude, wherein he has God for his companion ! His sylvan woods, freed from that dismal crowd of ridiculous gods, have become filled with an immense Divinity. The gift of prophecy and of wisdom, the mysteries of religion seem to reside in its sacred depths. We might say that the Catholic poet finds himself alone in the depths of the woods, but it is not so ; beca...use the intelligence of man, assisted by the Divine Light, easily fills the great spaces of nature, and one only thought of his soul is far more vast than all the solitudes of the earth. It is evident that our Divine Eeligion offers a class of poetry far higher than that which is offered us by Paganism. A ship is tossing on the ocean, and in danger of being wrecked ; the chaplain, by means of 106 THE INFLUENCE OF CATHOLICISM. words which purify souls, absolves each one of the beings on board from his faults ; he directs to Heaven fervent prayer, which in the midst of the whirlwind of the storm rises like a spirit from the wreck to the God of the Tempest.
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