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"THE CATHOLIC CONSCIENCE OF HISTORY I say the Catholic ""conscience"" of history-I say ""conscience""-that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower-I do not say ""The Catholic Aspect of History."" This talk of ""aspects"" is modern and therefore part of a decline: it is false, and therefore ephemeral: I will not stoop to it. I will rather do homage to truth and say that there is no such thing as a Catholic ""aspect"" of European history. There is a Protestant aspect, a Jewish aspect, a Mohammedan aspect, a Japanese aspect, and so forth. For all of these look on Europe from without. The Catholic sees Europe from within. There is no more a Catholic ""aspect"" of European history than there is a man's ""aspect"" of himself. Sophistry does indeed pretend that there is even a man's ""aspect"" of himself. In nothing does false philosophy prove itself more false. For a man's way of perceiving himself (when he does so honestly and after a cleansing examination of his mind) is in line with his Creator's, and therefore with reality: he sees from within. Let me pursue this metaphor. Man has in him conscience"

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