...passing his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture, became, as Mr. Lecky has said, "the ideal of the nations which had known the writings...Cicero, and the lives of Socrates and Cato. . . . The cleanliness of the body was regarded as the pollution of the soul, and the saints who were most admired...

...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known *.he writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates and C'ato." The military ideal of manliness, now existing side by side with i he monkish ideal, now confronting and...

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates or Cato. For about two centuries, the hideous maceration of the body was regarded as the highest proof...

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates or Cato. For about two centuries, the hideous maceration of the body was regarded as the highest proof...

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations, which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of SocrateB and Cato.' It is, indeed, difficult to say which is the most detestable figure in Mr. Lecky's...

...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known Mie writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates and C'ato." 'I lie military ideal of manliness, now existing side by side with the monkish ¡de now confronting...

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings...Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates and Cato. For about two centuries, the hideous maceration of the body was regarded as the highest proof of excellence....

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero, and the lives of Socrates or Cato. For about two centuries the hideous maceration of the body was regarded as the highest proof...

...atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings...Plato and Cicero, and the lives of Socrates and Cato." This is said of monks in the same page where it is asserted with truth that " no one had more reason...

...weakness, we cannot wonder that "a hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac," to borrow the words of Lecky, " without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural...Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates and Cato." Such views as these, although they were treated as heretical by the earlier Fathers of the Christian...