The spiritual alienation of its own greatest minds is the price that every civilization has to pay when it loses its religious foundation, and is contented with a purely material success. We are only just beginning to understand how intimately and profoundly the vitality of a society is bound up with its religion. It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture. The great civilizations of the world do not produce the great religions as a kind of cultural by-product; in a very real sense, the great religions are the foundations on which the great civilizations rest. A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture. [Dynamics of World History, 136]
Materialism Destroys Culture
March 21, 2008 at 10:11 am (Christopher Dawson, Culture)
