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Author: Kuhn, Albert, 1839-1929

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Added Date: 2015-03-24

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Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities, Rome (Italy), Antiquities

Publishers: New York : Benziger Bros.

Collections: folkscanomy miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional collections

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Year: 1916

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Preface Among all the cities raised by the cunning of man Rome stands foremost. Its charm is infinite, and forever it attracts mankind as the mighty seat of ancient empire, the mother and nurse of all modern nations, and the center of Catholicism. Nowhere has man left more durable and impressive monuments, nowhere does he stand forth so clearly the lord of creation as on the banks of the yellow Tiber, where for nearly three thousand years the proofs of his genius have multiplied, until there is nothing to surpass them in statesmanship, arms, legis- lation, letters, and those noble arts by which man rises above the animal world and touches on his heavenly home. Its happy position and its climate, no less than the rude and simple virtues of its first inhabitants, made it one day the mistress of the world's most historic peninsula. The story of her political growth fascinates us forever, as it did Polybius and St. Augustine. The very wreckage of her splendor, palaces, baths, porticos, theaters, obelisks, arches, still encumbers the sites of departed greatness, and our eyes may richly feast on the sites where Cicero spoke to the masters of this earth, and where Augustus ruled with firm hand the enormous mass of empire that God had permitted to gradually coalesce around the Mediterranean into a compact unity, the divinely preordained basis and conditions of the new spiritual empire that was to rise amid the ruins of its political forerunner and herald. For the Christian, after all, the chief interest of Rome is precisely the new spiritual and religious life of which it became at once the center and the driving force, and w-hose monuments and evidences are now commingled with the marbles of imperial palaces, or connote far and wide the resistless spread of the powerful ideas which, like new wane poured into old bottles, the Gospel of Jesus Christ made known to a world sated and disgusted with material greatness and temporal felicity. The Catacoml)s, silent and deserted, are the first marvelous battleground of the Christian fai'Ji, and their very ruins, reminiscent yet in many ways of the daily Roman life, are forever a glorious battle-cry of victory, but of the new love and virtue over the old hatred and sin, of the redeemed spirit over the bound flesh, of the City of God over the City of Man. Rome is at all times the guarantee, measure, and index of that Catholic faith which to-day, as in the past, binds in religious unity so many millions of our fellow-beings in all parts of the world. The visible ^'notes'' or evidences of that beloved faith appeal to us here as nowhere else. It holds the earthly remains of Sts. Peter and Paul, the apos- tolic champions who brought the Catholic faith to the peoples of the West and by their lives and deaths planted securely the good seed in the most favorable soil. It has ever been known as the Apostolic See par excellence, and cherishes yet many touching local memories of their sojourn. What Christian city can show such and so great evidences of Gospel sanctity as Rome? Every century has left the most touching memorials of holy lives, martyrs, confessors, doctors, virgins, widows, persons of every age and both sexes, the product of various social conditions, to whom Rome was, in life or in death, their final holy refuge, and to which, with their virtues, they bequeathed their eternal fame. Around this city as nowhere else has waged the conflict of Christian unity from the most obscure days of primitive Christendom down to our own time. Finally, among all cities, it shines by its universality, and with the broadest hospitality welcomes to the common fold Christians of every nation, race, and tongue, a mirror to-day of that wonderful hour in Jerusalem (Acts ii. 8) when every man heard the message of Jesus Christ in the tongue wherein he was born. After the holy places of Judea, Rome claims rightly the allegiance of the Western heart. She preached the Christian faith to the wanderings tribes that broke her poHtical mastery ; she civilized and elevated them, gave them her law and taught them respect for order, reverence for authority, and consideration for the rights of others. The hand that was accustomed to the spear only or the battle-ax learned to write, and thereby was laid the basis of a native civihzation. The Roman arts and sciences found a home in the monasteries of Teuton and Celt, wherein for centuries busy fingers transcribed the remnants of Roman wisdom. Gradually, as in a political nursery, the Western genius, with all its larger freedom and dynamism, grew in conscious vigor, and as it grew, ensouled the peoples of Europe with that high religious and patriotic spirit peculiar to their frankly Catholic period. It may be said with truth that Christian Rome is the cradle of all European greatness worthy of the name. A close and affectionate study of this glorious site of human endeavor, natural and supernatural, is a liberal education, and must be highly commended to our Catholic people, especially since modern progress has made it comparatively easy to visit Rome. All the great philosophers of history have recogTiized in the city of the Caesars and the Popes the highest theme of human contemplation, nor have the world's sweetest singers failed to pay their melodious tributes to that spot where every human emotion found at some time its perfect expression. The architect, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, artistic craftsmen of all kinds, behold in it the native home of their supreme gifts and the museum and treasury where, almost unconsciously, the great arts have stored their masterpieces. Nowhere can one study with better results the close relations between the Catholic religion and the fine arts than in this great stronghold of Catholicism, where from time immemorial every art and craft has found welcome, encouragement and inspiration. It is, therefore, at once a pleasure and a duty to welcome a work so nobly planned and so splendidly executed as the "Roma" of Dr. Kuhn. It is deserving of a place in the library of every Catholic family, and should be in every Catholic institution of education or of charity. Non-Catholics, moreover, can read it with profit and delight, since it is thoroughly scientific and written in a broad and liberal spirit, while its illustrations, numerous, well chosen, and artistically finished, lend it a universal value for old and young, for rich and poor, for artists and scholars, and for that large class of plain, every-day people who are content to enjoy the rich treasures that learning and art have piled up in this remarkable work. 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