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culture and science, give currency thus to standards 

 and conceptions which represent the childhood of the 

 world and give utterance to them, apparently un- 

 foreseeing the bankruptcy and catastrophe in 

 history of the intellectual movement from which 

 they sprang. 



As these manifestations of the great pagan move- 

 ment in the West ran their due course in Great 

 Britain, the incidents of the drama on other sides 

 continued to display the same vast spirit of extrava- 

 gance. The year before the outbreak of the world 

 war in 1914, the Bishop of Winchester, reviewing the 

 outlook in civilization, 1 emphasized in a striking 

 manner and with a high degree of insight the nature 

 of the principles upon which the characteristic 

 civilization of the West had been based in history. 

 The meaning of the movement which had produced 

 Western civilization the Bishop summarized in a 

 number of principles which may be briefly reduced 

 to two, as follows : 



(1) The gradual assertion in the history of the 

 world of the value, and the equal value, of every 

 human life. 



(2) The gradual rise to supremacy in the history 

 of the world of the principle of sacrifice and service 

 over force. 



1 Presidential Address. Chnrch Congress, 30 September 1913. 



