Streams of History: Ancient Rome (Yesterday's Classics) by Ellwood W. Kemp Page A

and culture forward into the north and west of Europe and finally on to America,—this was the great power of Christianity and the Christian Church.
    Thus we more and more see, as we go on with our study of the stream of history, how the great things worked out by one nation are not lost to the world when that nation dies, but are caught up and carried on to future peoples and nations by the great institutions of religion, government, industry, education and social life which all people help to work out and which, being continually nourished with new thought, always remain young.

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