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Christians in no way to impede their natural multiplica- 

 tion, whilst the opposite practice is being widely urged 

 outside the Church, and is likely to act as an increasing 

 check on pagan propagation. 



Moreover, as the two tendencies which have been here 

 distinguished as " civicism " and " paganism " become dis- 

 entangled and distinguished, an immense twofold gain 

 must accrue to Christianity, if the modern movement 

 continues so successfully and irresistibly that the tendency 

 to revive the mediaeval system becomes extinct. On the 

 one hand, that activity which is now directed to a revival 

 of mediaevalism will be set free and applied to the protec- 

 tion of freedom against pagan despotism. On the other 

 hand, nine tenths of the present hostility to the Church 

 will have ceased when it is clearly and generally seen that 

 no desire or intention of reviving mediaevalism exists in it. 

 Then those who are anti-theists, and fanatically opposed 

 to Christianity in the interest of paganism, will stand alone 

 against the combined opposition of Christians and advo- 

 cates of freedom that is, against those who can heartily 

 combine on a basis of God-given natural right, whether 

 that right be or be not supplemented and further enforced 

 by divine revelation. 



Thus it seems that when perfect free play is allowed, 

 the Church must come to be more and more composed 

 of naturally-selected citizens whose intellect fully approves 

 her doctrines, and whose modes of life more or less 'fully 



