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They act both as contrasts and as indications of the original substratum of the figure; but to say that severe simplicity is the highest ideal is mere pedantry and Manicheism. 'Oh, everything is Manicheism with you, Claude! 'And no wonder, while the world is as full of it now as it was in the thirteenth century. But let that pass.
The Manicheism of the middle ages was certainly not of so scientific and elaborate a nature as modern socialism; but it would have been productive of like evil results to society had it not been crushed down by the united power of the Church and the state. If it had been successful, it is impossible to imagine what would have become of Europe. Of its Eastern origin historians say little.
But after the barbarian invasions we hear no more of the Manichees for upward of five hundred years. The West had entirely forgotten them. Arianism and Manicheism had apparently perished together. The tenth century is called a period of darkness and ignorance; it at least possessed the advantage of being free from heresy; the dogmas of the Church were unhesitatingly and universally accepted.
The columns of the Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages.
One thing, though, Harding certainly does believe in, judging by a sermon I once heard him preach." "And that is?" "Manicheism. Chichester, you say, was a saint?" "He was, if a man can be a saint who has a certain amiable weakness of character." "And now? You think he would be a difficult customer to tackle now?" "Harding finds him so." "And Harding was an overwhelming chap, cocksure of himself.
Finally, the battle was limited to the two great rivals, under one or other of which the best of the remainder had ranged themselves Manicheism and Catholic Christianity: Manicheism in which the Persian Catholicism in which the Jewish element most preponderated.
"Two Gods there could not be," said Mr Graham. "Of the two beings supposed, the evil one must be called devil were he ten times the more powerful." "Wi' a' my hert!" responded Malcolm. "But I agree with you," the master went on, that "Manicheism is unspeakably better than atheism, and unthinkably better than believing in an unjust God. But I am not driven to such a theory."
This craving after so-called classic art, whether it be Manicheism or not, is certainly a fighting against God, a contempt of everything which He has taught us artists since the introduction of Christianity.
In the first class of these inferior deities, are Epunamun, or the god of war; Meulen, a benevolent being, the friend of the human race; and Guecubu, a malignant being, the author of all evil, who is likewise called Algue. Hence they appear to entertain the doctrine of two adverse principles, improperly called Manicheism.
If men would cease to be tempted and to sin, the ministry of priests would become useless to them. Manicheism is evidently the support of all religions; but unfortunately the devil, being invented to remove all suspicion of malice from Divinity, proves to us at every moment the powerlessness or the awkwardness of his celestial Adversary. Man's nature, it is said, must necessarily become corrupt.
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