16.] [Footnote 5321: Acts of the Apostles, ch.

IV.,32, 34 and 35.] [Footnote 5322: I cannot help but conclude that the two world wars, started by Christian Governments, led to socialism and religious decay.
How large a role television played in removing the need for clerical guidance and comfort is hard to determine, the fact is that the Churches in Europe stand mostly empty and Taine's description fits rather will on today's society.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5323: Saint Athanasius, the principal founder of Christian metaphysics, did not know Latin and learned it with great difficulty at Rome when he came to defend his doctrine.

On the other hand, the principal founder of western theology, Saint Augustin, had only an imperfect knowledge of Greek.] [Footnote 5324: For example, the three words which are essential and technical in metaphysical speculations on the divine essence, have no real equivalent in Latin, while the words by which an attempt is made to render these terms, verbum, substantia, persona, are very inexact.
Persona and substantia, in Tertullian, are already used in their Roman sense, which is always juridical and special.] [Footnote 5325: Sir Henry Sumner Maine, "Ancient Law," p.354.

The following is profound in a remarkable degree: "Greek metaphysical literature contained the sole stock of words and ideas out of which the human mind could provide itself with the means of engaging in the profound controversies as to the Divine Persons, the Divine Substance, and the Divine Natures.