ABSTRACT
But let us ignore the numerical relationship for the moment and consider the contemporary internal conditions of the two great rival organizations, Christianity and paganism.
Christianity was brought to the world by high historical necessity, as a period to antiquity, as a break with it, and yet in part to preserve it and transmit it to new peoples who as pagans might well have utterly barbarized and destroyed a purely pagan Roman Empire. The time was come for men to enter into a new relationship with things of the senses and things beyond the senses, for love of God and neighbor and separation from things earthly to take the place of older views of the gods and the world.
