The clan was
all in all: the clan was the family; it was the clan that was the owner
of property." Also W.M. Sloan, The French Revolution and Religious
Reform, 38. "In the Greek and Roman world the individual, body, mind,
and soul, had no place in reference to the state. It was only as a
member of family, gens, curia, phratry, or deme, and tribe, that the
ancient city-state knew the men and women which composed it. The same
was true of knowledge: every sensation, perception, and judgment fell
into the category of some abstraction, and, instead of concrete things,
men knew nothing but generalized ideals."
[2] Francesco S. Nitti, Catholic Socialism, 74, 85, 86. "If we consider
the teachings of the Gospel, the communistic origins of the church, the
socialistic tendencies of the early fathers, the traditions of the
Canon Law, we cannot wonder that at the present day Socialism should
count no small number of its adherents among Catholic writers.... The
Reformation was the triumph of Individualism. Catholicism, instead, is
communistic by its origin and traditions.... The Catholic Church, with
her powerful organization, dating back over many centuries, has
accustomed Catholic peoples to passive obedience, to a passive
renunciation of the greater part of individualistic tendencies.
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