Much has been said from time to time--particularly by literateurs with a philosophic turn of mind about the drama of history. And indeed, their contention that there is a divinity which shapes the end of history even as it does that of man, In other words that history moves like a drama toward an ultimate conclusion, seems at least to have a basis. Certainly it is not rare to find elements of the dramatic in the events of the past, particularly in studying those which have had, a long and unbroken succession.
Nowhere is this better seen than in the Roman Catholic Church. The contemplation of the oldest institution in the world, which for nearly two thousand years has exercised unbroken dominion over the souls and often the bodies of men contains in itself something of the dramatic. It has had its supreme glories, and its supreme failures; its moments of pride and its moments of discredit; its days of brilliance and its nights of shadow.
It is of one of these latter periods of darkness, when the Church, institutionally speaking at least, lay prostrate under the heel of a French king, that Professor Merriman will discuss when he speaks at 11 o'clock in Emerson D this morning on the Babylonish Captivity of the Papacy.
Other lectures of interest are:
TODAY
9 O'clock
"Romain Rolland," Professor Morize, Sever 14.
"The British Commonwealth of Nations," Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall.
"Memory, Including Practical Rules of Learning". Professor Boring, Emerson D.
10 O'clock
"Thomas Paine," Professor Murdoes", Harvard 1.
"Egoism," Professor Perry Emerson A.
"England's Parnassus" Professor Rollins, Sever 5.
TOMORROW
9 O'clock
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