Excerpt from Plato and the Times He Lived
For the present state of civilisation of the European race we are mainly indebted to two nations, the Israelites and the Greeks. To call Christianity the dominant religion among the European race the outcome of Israeli tic, or Jewish thought would be utterly at variance with the convictions of those professing the Christian faith; but its first apostles were Jews, and whatever divine revelation was believed by the Israelites to have been bestowed upon themselves, is incorporated with the sacred books of Christianity. Men of high standing who, in our days, do not believe in Christian revelation, still admit that the maintenance of Christian morality and of the practical effects of the spirit of Christianity is essential to the welfare of human society. Rarely has a higher praise been given to that spirit than by the late M. Taine in a volume published after his death. As to the Jews, not only are those forming part of European society possessed of an influence on it unrivalled by that of any other section of the community, but it is a remarkable fact that, when in the 18 th century a tendency began to prevail to break with the belief in Christian revelation, the best and worthiest representatives of this tendency took a Jew who had lived a century before them, Spinoza, as their guide.
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